ITM 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Use Case, Workflow, Activity Diagram

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 305
• Professor: Raymond Moss

Document Summary

Write a brief description as shown in chapter 3 for most use cases. Write a fully developed use case description for more complex use cases. Typical use case description templates include: use case name, scenario (if needed, triggering event, brief description, actors, related use cases (<>, stakeholders, preconditions, post conditions, flow of activities, exception conditions. Fully developed use case description create customer account (part 1) Fully developed use case description create customer account (part 2) Scenario (if needed: a use case can have more than one scenario (special case or more specific path) Triggering event: based on event decomposition technique. Brief description: written previously when use case was identified. Actors: one or more users from use case diagrams. Related use cases <: if one use case invokes or includes another. Stakeholders: anyone with an interest in the use case. Preconditions: what must be true before the use case begins.