Chapter 19. Use Cases
A user story is to a use case as a gazelle is to a gazebo.
—Alistair Cockburn
In Chapter 1, we provided a brief history of requirements methods and briefly mentioned the role of use cases as a form of requirements capture and expression. Popularized originally within the context of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), which was use case–driven and architecture-centric, for many, use cases have been the requirements analysis and communication expression of choice. Even outside RUP, they appeared in most contemporary works on software requirements and systems analysis. Use cases were also the container for functional requirements capture, analysis, and behavioral specification within the context of the Unified Modeling Language ...
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