On Use Cases

Alistair Cockburn Humans and Technology 7691 Dell Rd, Salt Lake City, UT 84121 mail to: arc@acm.org

I have received a lot of correspondence since writing "Structuring Use Cases With Goals", usually asking for clarification or examples. While it is still the case that everyone tells me their use cases are proprietary and confidential, there are a few more sample fragments, and more recorded conversation. This page is intended as a collecting point for the q and a discussions I have, and samples as I get them. I shall write and post a few samples myself.

Alternative and supplementary descriptions and discussions

* Use case discussions 1 (long text file)

* Peter's nicely digested Intro to Use Cases document

* ref to the OO Tips page on When are Use Cases Done?

Template

* html use case template

Samples include

* Buy Goods

* Spark Plugs before and after Cleaning is sample for getting the IF statements out of the use case.

* Purchasing request tracking system use cases coming soon

Tools being used

* Screen shot showing use of Access database as repository

 

more coming over time

Alistair