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

To abstract things, to move from fact to vision, and thereby improve reusability is useful for any business analyst striving for efficiency and effectiveness. Amazon.com Alistair Cockburn's Writing Effective Use Cases is an approachable, informative, and very intelligent treatment of an essential topic of software design. In this article I show how to extract business rules from use case .. Introduction This article is inspired by two more of Alistair Cockburn's “gold nuggets” found in his book Writing Effective Use Cases . Cockburn, Alistair, Writing Effective Use Cases, Addison-Wesley, 2001. 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. A Use Case Driven Approach, revised printing, Addison-Wesley 1993. E1: Use cases have been written (and validated by subject matter experts (SMEs)) 'Sometimes it's easier for SMEs to validate business rules when they see them already separated from the rest. Description: Click to see full description. (1998) Systems Engineering and Analysis, 3rd Ed. Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering, USA. In the past, I have produced use cases – in their written form – to specify detailed system functionality (taking my guidance from Cockburn's Writing Effective Use Cases).