Use Cases: Requirements in Context, Second Edition

Preface

It has been an interesting three years since the first edition of this book was published. At that time, use cases were still an “interesting technique” but had not been widely adopted. Today, we see a software development marketplace where use cases are the standard practice for gathering requirements and have even migrated to other applications, including business processes and service offerings. We would not have predicted this wave of popularity in our happiest visions.

Of course, our book was not the only one in the last few years to proselytize use cases. But it has been gratifying to be part of this new technique’s recognition in the software world. Given this trend, we’ve decided to publish a second edition of Use Cases, putting ...