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

Use cases can help answer these questions by providing a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of your project. A use case needs “stuff” behind it to describe it. I just read a recent blog (wiki) entry by Alistair Cockburn (of "writing effective use cases" fame) called "why I still use use cases". I urge you to find an approach that works even better for you. He early on describes a couple of ways to write use cases. €�Writing Effective Use Cases”, by Alistair Cockburn, is an excellent reading for those who want to learn the art of writing good behavioral specifications in the form of use cases. I began the journey of use cases through Alistair Cockburn book today and one thing hit me right away. Write good use cases to design and develop a stable system. A use case diagram is a behavior diagram, so each use case needs its behavior described. In this quick-reading One of the biggest problems in delivering a website, and yet probably the least talked and written about, is how to decide, specify, and communicate just what, exactly, is it that we're going to build, and why. The Unified Modeling Language (UML1) defines an Actor (from UseCases) as: An actor specifies a role played by a user or any other system that interacts with the subject.