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

When written well, use cases can effectively convey subtle user-system interactions. They are popular because they are practical. This tutorial has used Alistair Cockburn's template from Writing Effective Use Cases (**PRE-PUB. Writing Effective Use Cases This was boring for me. Six simple steps to writing effective Use Cases. It is very educative and probably highly applicable in certain teams and projects but it's far from universal. Introduction Use cases are a popular way to express software requirements. Use Cases – Best Practices, Examples and Applications; How to identify Actors? Primary and Secondary Actors; Business Rules and Supplemental Specifications. A common liability of use case diagrams is that the diagram diverts our attention from the real goal, which is to describe the use cases. Use case structure varies from organization to organization which can seriously impact the Estimation. An excellent and practical reference on writing use cases is "Writing Effective Use Cases," by Alistair Cockburn, part of the Agile Software Development Series, ISBN 0-201-70225-8.