Misuse Cases: Use Cases with Hostile Intent

  • Authors:
  • Ian Alexander

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A misuse case is the negative form of a use case; it documents a negative scenario. Its actor is an agent with hostile intent toward the system under design. The relationships between use and misuse cases document threats and their mitigations. Use- and misuse-case diagrams (shown in the article) are valuable in threat and hazard analysis, system design, eliciting requirements, and generating test cases.