Use Cases

By Daryl Kulak, Eamonn Guiney,

Book cover of Use Cases: Requirements in Context

Book description

This book describes how to gather and define software requirements using a process based on use cases. It shows systems analysts and designers how use cases can provide solutions to the most challenging requirements issues, resulting in effective, quality systems that meet the needs of users.

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1 author picked Use Cases as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I recognized the value of use cases the first time I used them successfully on a project. Some years later I developed a 1-day training course on use cases. I read four of the most popular use case books then available, cover to cover, one right after the other. Use Cases: Requirements in Context did the best job of presenting a practical approach to applying the use case technique. 

Shifting the requirements focus from system features to a usage-centric viewpoint provides many benefits, and use cases are the best way I’ve found to approach that. They provide an organizational structure…

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