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Subject:Re: Plain English explanation of use cases?? From:"Anthony Markatos" <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:jean -at- wrevenge -dot- com -dot- au, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 21 Jan 2000 09:13:17 PST
Jean Weber asks:
Can someone direct me to a plain English explanation of "use cases" and
"user scenarios"
Tony Markatos responds:
A Use Case is basically a "typical end-user scenario" - differences between
Use Case and User Scenario are very minor ("John Smith goes to the store" vs
"An End-User goes to the store"). A Use Case is a systems analysis tool (or
task analysis tool). More specifically a functional analysis tool.
One of the main principles of analysis is that it is not possible to
rigorously analyze a system from all angles, at least not in the initial
iterations. It would take to long. So analysts focus on the most frequent
uses of the system.
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