UseCases

articles - use cases

Brief essays that answer the most common questions that students and clients have asked about use cases.

	Can I use Use Cases When My Primary Actor is Another Software System? What to do when your user is not human.
	What Skills Are Best for Writing Good Use Cases? Technical skill alone is an impediment to writing effective use cases.
	How Do I Motivate My Users to Read Our Use Cases? If your users won't read them, it does not matter how good your use cases are.
	What Project Areas Do Use Cases Improve? Use cases are part of requirements specification, but they enable much more.
	How Much Value Does the Use Case Diagram Have? IBM/Rational love the use case diagram, but should you?
	Can You Put All Your Requirements Into Use Cases? It's tempting to have just one requirements document set, but should you?
	Why Are Use Cases So Painful? An overview of why use cases can be spectacularly frustrating, and what to do about it.
	The 10 Biggest Mistakes We Make with Use Cases A collection of the most common mis-steps I have seen.
	The 4 Types of Exceptions in a Use Case Accomplish a lot by considering only a little of what can go wrong.