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Writing Effective Use Cases Alistair Cockburn
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

It is a truly great book and I would strongly recommend anyone about to embark on a requirements project to read it. Images are an important component of an effective communication as you might have heard, “picture is worth a thousand words” implying that pictures do a good job of conveying complex ideas. They are popular because they are practical. Six simple steps to writing effective Use Cases. We found a page from GatherSpace.com with an article about writing effective use case, containing what I think is 10 good steps on writing good and effective use cases. This holds true for While use cases can be written in text, the UML model emphasizes diagrammatic representation because they are “comparatively easy to understand intuitively, even without knowing the notation (Stevens & Pooley, page 93). An excellent and practical reference on writing use cases is "Writing Effective Use Cases," by Alistair Cockburn, part of the Agile Software Development Series, ISBN 0-201-70225-8. These use cases will form the basis of the . I have just finished reading 'Writing Effective Use Cases' by Alistair Cockburn. The first four steps in writing use cases deal with reviewing the activity diagram, finding the subject boundaries, listing the primary actors and their goals, and identifying and writing overviews of the major use cases based on these results. Below is a use case based on his “Casual Use Case” structure. We also found a good agile use case template from Enthiosys. Introduction Use cases are a popular way to express software requirements. Use cases have become an integral part of modeling software requirements, but many software developers are discovering that writing effective use cases is more difficult than they had anticipated. Specifically, they needed to begin writing the normal flow of events; that is, they should perform the eighth step for writing effective use cases. Alistair Cockburn, an expert on use cases describes in “Writing Effective Use Cases” (2001) that a “fully dressed” use case is not always appropriate.