Use Case Modeling Training

Agenda

Use Case Overview

• Use Case and use case model defined
• Levels of use case modeling
• Strengths and limitations of use case modeling
• User stories vs use cases
• Using use cases in predictive and adaptive environments
• Use case modeling process

Use Case Diagram

• Use case diagram defined
• Use case diagramming steps
• Define system scope
• Identify actors and use cases
• Types of actors
• Associations between actors and use cases
• Create a use case diagram
• Review and refine use case diagrams
• Package use cases

Use Case Narrative

• Use case narrative overview & elements
• Use case brief
• Use Case introduction
• Pre & post conditions
• Use case flow of events (primary, alternative & exception)
• Narrative documentation guidelines
• 3 Methods to documenting the flow of events
• Document additional considerations in a use case
• Refine and review use case narratives

Use Case Relationships

• UML notation
• Include relationship
• Extend relationship
• Generalization relationships (use cases and actors)
• Identify potential use case relationships

Activity Diagrams

• Activity Diagram overview
• UML notation
• Forks and join rules
• Model and document looping in a use case
• Create an activity diagram

User Interface (UI) Prototyping

• Use cases & user interfaces
• Steps to create a user interface prototype
• Develop a UI prototype for a use case

Use Cases & Test Cases

• Translate use cases into test cases overview
• Develop a number of test cases based on a use case