This guide will help readers learn how to employ the significant power of use cases to their software development efforts. It provides a practical methodology, presenting key use case concepts.

This book describes how to gather and define software requirements using a process based on use cases. It shows systems analysts and designers how use cases can provide solutions to the most challenging requirements issues, resulting in effective, quality systems that meet the needs of users. Use Cases, Second Edition: Requirements in Context describes a three-step method for establishing requirements—an iterative process that produces increasingly refined requirements. Drawing on their extensive, real-world experience, the authors offer a wealth of advice on use-case driven lifecycles, planning for change, and keeping on track. In addition, they include numerous detailed examples to illustrate practical applications. This second edition incorporates the many advancements in use case methodology that have occurred over the past few years. Specifically, this new edition features major changes to the methodology's iterations, and the section on management reflects the faster-paced, more "chaordic" software lifecycles prominent today. In addition, the authors have included a new chapter on use case traceability issues and have revised the appendixes to show more clearly how use cases evolve. The book opens with a brief introduction to use cases and the Unified Modeling Language (UML). It explains how use cases reduce the incidence of duplicate and inconsistent requirements, and how they facilitate the documentation process and communication among stakeholders. The book shows you how to: Describe the context of relationships and interactions between actors and applications using use case diagrams and scenarios Specify functional and nonfunctional requirements Create the candidate use case list Break out detailed use cases and add detail to use case diagrams Add triggers, preconditions, basic course of events, and exceptions to use cases Manage the iterative/incremental use case driven project lifecycle Trace back to use cases, nonfunctionals, and business rules Avoid classic mistakes and pitfalls The book also highlights numerous currently available tools, including use case name filters, the context matrix, user interface requirements, and the authors' own "hierarchy killer."

Discusses how to define and organize use cases that model the user requirements of a software application. The approach focuses on identifying all the parties who will be using the system, then writing detailed use case descriptions and structuring the use case model. An ATM example runs throughout the book. The authors work at Rational Software. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Simple, elegant, and proven solutions to the specific problems of writing use cases on real projects, this workbook has 36 specific guidelines that readers can use to measure the quality of their use cases. This is the first book to specifically address use cases with the proven and popular development concept of patterns.

Extending the scenario method beyond interface design, this important book shows developers how to design more effective systems by soliciting, analyzing, and elaborating stories from end-users Contributions from leading industry consultants and opinion-makers present a range of scenario techniques, from the light, sketchy, and agile to the careful and systematic Includes real-world case studies from Philips, DaimlerChrysler, and Nokia, and covers systems ranging from custom software to embedded hardware-software systems

Diagramming and process are important topics in today’s software development world, as the UML diagramming language has come to be almost universally accepted. Yet process is necessary; by themselves, diagrams are of little use. Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML - Theory and Practice combines the notation of UML with a lightweight but effective process - the ICONIX process - for designing and developing software systems. ICONIX has developed a growing following over the years. Sitting between the free-for-all of Extreme Programming and overly rigid processes such as RUP, ICONIX offers just enough structure to be successful.

This book covers all you need to know to model and design software applications from use cases to software architectures in UML and shows how to apply the COMET UML-based modeling and design method to real-world problems. The author describes architectural patterns for various architectures, such as broker, discovery, and transaction patterns for service-oriented architectures, and addresses software quality attributes including maintainability, modifiability, testability, traceability, scalability, reusability, performance, availability, and security. Complete case studies illustrate design issues for different software architectures: a banking system for client/server architecture, an online shopping system for service-oriented architecture, an emergency monitoring system for component-based software architecture, and an automated guided vehicle for real-time software architecture. Organized as an introduction followed by several short, self-contained chapters, the book is perfect for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in software engineering and design, and for experienced software engineers wanting a quick reference at each stage of the analysis, design, and development of large-scale software systems.

"1337 Use Cases for ChatGPT & other Chatbots in the AI-Driven Era" is a book written by Florin Badita that explores the potential uses of advanced large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in various industries and scenarios. The book provides 1337 use cases and around 4000 examples of how these technologies can be applied in the future. The author, Florin Badita, is a data scientist, social entrepreneur, activist, and artist who has written about his experiences with data analysis on Medium. He is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list, a TedX speaker, and Landecker Democracy Fellow 2021-2022. He is known for his work in activism, founding the civic group Corruption Kills in 2015, GIS, data analysis, and data mining. The book covers a variety of tips and strategies, including how to avoid errors when converting between different units, how to provide context and examples to improve the LLM's understanding of the content, and how to use the Markdown language to format and style text in chatbot responses. The book is intended for anyone interested in learning more about the capabilities and potential uses of ChatGPT and other language models in the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence. After the introduction part and the Table of content, the book is split into 20 categories, each category then being split into smaller categories with at least one use-case and multiple examples A real example from the book: Category: 4 Science and technology [...] Sub-Category: 4.60 Robotics 4.60.1 Text Generation General example text prompt: "Generate a description of a new robot design" Formula: "Generate [description] of [robot design]" Specific examples of prompts: "Generate a detailed description of a robot designed for underwater exploration" "Generate a brief overview of a robot designed for assisting with construction tasks" "Generate a marketing pitch for a robot designed to assist with household chores" 4.60.2 Programming Assistance General example text prompt: "Write code to implement a specific behavior in a robot" Formula: "Write code to [implement behavior] in [robot]" Specific examples of prompts: "Write code to make a robot follow a specific path using sensors and control algorithms" "Write code to make a robot respond to voice commands using natural language processing" "Write code to make a robot perform basic tasks in a manufacturing setting, such as moving objects from one location to another"

System architects and designers can use this title to quickly produce more efficient use case models by applying a catalog of use case patterns. Based on the authors' experience, the book describes the practical use, application, and solutions to common problems of creating use cases.