Use Cases: Patterns and Blueprints

Part III. Use-Case Patterns

This part of the book presents a collection of use-case patterns proven useful when developing maintainable and reusable use-case models. These patterns focus on designs and techniques used in high-quality models, and not on how to model specific usages. Each chapter in this part presents and discusses a group of related patterns.

All chapters in this part are organized in the same way:

• Name of group—. A descriptive name of the patterns in a few words

• Intent—. Captures what the intent is of applying one of these patterns

• Characteristics—. States whether the patterns are simple or complex, common or infrequent

• Keywords—. A list of keywords characterizing the patterns

• For each pattern

  • Name—. A descriptive name of the pattern ...