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Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn

Writing Effective Use Cases Alistair Cockburn ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 0201702258, 9780201702255
Page: 249

€�Writing Effective Use Cases”, by Alistair Cockburn, is an excellent reading for those who want to learn the art of writing good behavioral specifications in the form of use cases. Writing use cases as a means of capturing the behavioral requirements of software systems and business processes is a practice that is quickly gaining popularity. The use case analysis for SPIN will be based on Alistair Cockburn's book "Writing Effective Use Cases". That will take care of most of the problem, because the differences between the companies will be on the data sheets not the use cases. A use case diagram is a behavior diagram, so each use case needs its behavior described. But I also want to tell you about the upcoming Better Software Conference and Agile Development Practices in Las Vegas June 6-11 where I'll be presenting a one-day tutorial on Writing Effective Agile Use Cases. Introduction This article is inspired by two more of Alistair Cockburn's “gold nuggets” found in his book Writing Effective Use Cases . A use case needs “stuff” behind it to describe it. Read the chapter on Parameterized Use Cases in “Writing Effective Use Cases”. In order for use cases to provide value to any Project, agile or not, they need to be written properly. A nice reference sheet can be found at Alistair's website.