Tag Archives: use-cases

Sometimes, use-cases just aren’t what you need

Posted on June 28, 2012 by rlc

I’ve written about use-cases on this blog before (parts one, two and three of the sidebar on use-cases in my podcast come to mind) but I haven’t really talked about when to avoid them. When you get a new piece … Continue reading →

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Use-Cases Part 3: What A Use-Case Really Is & Writing Use-Cases

Posted on March 1, 2010 by rlc

Before we start using use-cases in the description of the functional requirements we want to meet in our project, we need to understand what a use-case really is and how to go about writing one. In this installment I will … Continue reading →

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Use-Cases Part 2: What Use-Cases Are For (The history, present and future of use-cases)

Posted on February 16, 2010 by rlc

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the “waterfall” software development model, which had been around (with that name) since the 1970s (see, for example, Boehm, B.W. Software engineering. IEEE 7~ans Comput. C-25, (1976), 1226-1241) was starting to be progressively … Continue reading →

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Use-Cases Part 1: Introduction & Ingredients

Posted on February 1, 2010 by rlc

In the “C++ for the self-taught” series, we’re about to embark on a new project. In order to describe that project and in order to figure out what we want the result of that project will be, we will be … Continue reading →

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