Friday 21 December 2012

Alternative Ways of Documenting Use Case

3.11 Alternative Ways of Documenting the Use Case

Many people and organizations prefer to document the steps of interaction between the use and the system in two separate columns as shown below.
User Action System Reaction
1. The use case starts when the user wants to delete an entire set of information such as a user, commission plan, or group.
2. The user selects the set of information that he/she would like to delete and directs the system to delete the information. - Exception 1, 2 3. The system responds by asking the user to confirm deleting the information.
4. The user confirms deletion. 5. A system responds by deleting the information and notifying the user that the information was deleted from the system.

It is a matter of personal and organizational preference. The important thing is to write the use case in proper detail.

The next topic will be Activity Diagrams in Use Case.

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