Month: January 2010
Precise Use Cases
This article describes a precise form of use cases that promotes the specification of inter-actor options and alternative course conditions. Precise cases use a description language with a Structured English grammar to specify interactions.
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UML Resource Page
The Unified Modeling Language™ – UML – is OMG’s most-used specification, and the way the world models not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure.
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Book Review: UML 2.0 in Action
UML 2.0 in Action is a book from Henriette Baumann, Philippe Baumann and Patrick Graessle that is a very good introduction to the power of modeling with UML. After an initial presentation of the basic principles of modeling and UML, the book presents the diagrams used to model both business and software views of systems. […]
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Agile Requirements
This article explains the approach to handle requirement in agile projects.
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Authoring Software Requirements with a Common Vernacular
Depending on your environment and the complexity of the anticipated solution, writing requirements can be a really tedious piece of work. You need to try and create a common vernacular for requirements. This is crucial to ensuring you have objective and agreeable requirements .
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Uses Cases are still Useful
Use cases are, indeed, heavier and more difficult than either user stories or backlog items, but they bring value for that extra weight. As not-Einstein said: “Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.” (The attribution to Einstein has been debunked, it seems.) Source: “Why I still use use cases“, Alistair Cockburn, alistair.cockburn.us
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