• • • In and, a use case is a list of actions or event steps typically defining the interactions between a role (known in the as an ) and a system to achieve a goal. The actor can be a human or other external system. In systems engineering use cases are used at a higher level than within often representing missions or goals. The detailed requirements may then be captured in the (SysML) or as contractual statements. Is an important and valuable technique that has been widely used in modern software engineering since its formal introduction by in 1992. Use case driven development is a key characteristic of many process models and frameworks such as, the (UP), the (RUP), and the (OUM).

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With its inherent iterative, incremental and evolutionary nature, use case also fits well for. Sometimes in text writing, a use-case name followed by an alternative text symbol (!, +, -, etc.) is a more concise and convenient way to denote levels, e.g.

Place an order!, login. Fully dressed [ ] Cockburn describes a more detailed structure for a use case, but permits it to be simplified when less detail is needed. His fully dressed use case template lists the following fields: • Title: 'an active-verb goal phrase that names the goal of the primary actor' • Primary Actor • Goal in Context • Scope • Level • Stakeholders and Interests • Precondition • Minimal Guarantees • Success Guarantees • Trigger • Main Success Scenario • Extensions • Technology & Data Variations List In addition, Cockburn suggests using two devices to indicate the nature of each use case: icons for design scope and goal level. Cockburn's approach has influenced other authors; for example, Alexander and Beus-Dukic generalize Cockburn's 'Fully dressed use case' template from software to systems of all kinds, with the following fields differing from Cockburn: • Variation scenarios '(maybe branching off from and maybe returning to the main scenario)' • Exceptions 'i.e.

Exception events and their exception-handling scenarios' Casual [ ] Cockburn recognizes that projects may not always need detailed 'fully dressed' use cases. He describes a Casual use case with the fields: • Title (goal) • Primary Actor • Scope • Level • (Story): the body of the use case is simply a paragraph or two of text, informally describing what happens.

Fowler style [ ] states 'There is no standard way to write the content of a use case, and different formats work well in different cases.' : 100 He describes 'a common style to use' as follows:: 101 • Title: 'goal the use case is trying to satisfy': 101 • Main Success Scenario: numbered list of steps: 101 • Step: 'a simple statement of the interaction between the actor and a system': 101 • Extensions: separately numbered lists, one per Extension: 101 • Extension: 'a condition that results in different interactions from. The main success scenario'. An extension from main step 3 is numbered 3a, etc. Manual Line Lock Jeep Tj there. : 101 The Fowler style can also be viewed as a simplified variant of the Cockburn template. Main article: A use case defines the interactions between external actors and the system under consideration to accomplish a goal. Actors must be able to make decisions, but need not be human: 'An actor might be a person, a company or organization, a computer program, or a computer system—hardware, software, or both.'