Practical experience of eliciting classes from use case descriptions
Journal of Systems and Software
A Pattern Mining Approach Using QVT
ECMDA-FA '09 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications
An investigation of use case quality in a large safety-critical software development project
Information and Software Technology
UCOT: semiautomatic generation of conceptual models from use case descriptions
SE '08 Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
ER'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Advances in conceptual modeling: foundations and applications
The role of comprehension in requirements and implications for use case descriptions
Software Quality Control
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ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
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Use cases have, for some years, been a popular approach to specification, as part of the Unified Modelling Language (UML). However, a number of authors have pointed to weaknesses with the approach, particularly in terms of the support offered to the writer of the use case description. This paper describes a Use Case Description Quality Checklist that acts as a check on the quality of the written description. The checklist is derived from theories of text comprehension, taken from the Discourse Processing community. The checklist approach has a number of benefits. First, the approach can be used to derive, or examine further, use case guidelines. That is, by considering whether such guidelines are likely to result in desirable qualities within the resulting description, one is able to make an informed judgement about the utility of those guidelines. Second, one can test for the desirable quality features in existing descriptions, thus enabling empirical validation. Third, as a minimum, the quality features can themselves be used as a checklist for the examination, and revision, of use case descriptions. To demonstrate applicability, the paper reports upon the use, and success, of the approach on an industrial case study.