6.1. Goals and Stories
Customers and end users have goals (also known as needs in the UP) and want computer systems to help meet them, ranging from recording sales to estimating the flow of oil from future wells. There are several ways to capture these goals and system requirements; the better ones are simple and familiar because this makes it easier—especially for customers and end users—to contribute to their definition or evaluation. That lowers the risk of missing the mark.
Use cases are a mechanism to help keep it simple and understandable for all stakeholders. Informally, they are stories of using a system to meet goals. Here is an example brief format use case:
Process Sale: A customer arrives at a checkout with items to purchase. The ...
Get Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and the Unified Process, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
