Use Case Modeling Training

Through this course, you will learn to:

• Leverage use cases to elicit stakeholder and functional requirements
• Define and model the major components of use case models using Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation
• Understand how to leverage use cases in a predictive or adaptive environment
• Identify the different types of actors and determine candidate use cases
• Develop a use case diagram to communicate system scope
• Describe Use Cases through a narrative flow of events (Primary, alternate, and exception paths) using a Use Case Template
• Diagram various use case relationships
• Develop an Activity Diagram to chart the scenarios of a Use Case
• Leverage use cases to quickly create test cases
• Develop user interface prototypes based on the use case to uncover additional requirements

Who Should Attend a Use Case Modeling Course

This course is intended for business analysts, systems analysts, project managers, product owners, and any project professional who develop software applications.

Prerequisites

Experience with software development projects is helpful.

Course Format & Outline

To help assimilate the tools and techniques learned, there is a mixture of individual and team exercises throughout the course. Students will need to be prepared for a high level of participation. Each participant will receive a comprehensive student guide complete with examples, workshop solutions, and a Use Case template that can be used back on the job.

Use Case Overview

• Use Case and use case model defined
• Levels of use case modeling
• Strengths and limitations of use case modeling
• User stories vs use cases
• Using use cases in predictive and adaptive environments
• Use case modeling process

Use Case Diagram

• Use case diagram defined
• Use case diagramming steps
• Define system scope
• Identify actors and use cases
• Types of actors
• Associations between actors and use cases
• Create a use case diagram
• Review and refine use case diagrams
• Package use cases

Use Case Narrative

• Use case narrative overview & elements
• Use case brief
• Use Case introduction
• Pre & post conditions
• Use case flow of events (primary, alternative & exception)
• Narrative documentation guidelines
• 3 Methods to documenting the flow of events
• Document additional considerations in a use case
• Refine and review use case narratives

Use Case Relationships

• UML notation
• Include relationship
• Extend relationship
• Generalization relationships (use cases and actors)
• Identify potential use case relationships

Activity Diagrams

• Activity Diagram overview
• UML notation
• Forks and join rules
• Model and document looping in a use case
• Create an activity diagram

User Interface (UI) Prototyping

• Use cases & user interfaces
• Steps to create a user interface prototype
• Develop a UI prototype for a use case

Use Cases & Test Cases

• Translate use cases into test cases overview
• Develop a number of test cases based on a use case

Appendix - Class Models

• UML overview and notation
• Identify candidate classes from use cases
• Identify attributes and operations
• Determine association and multiplicity
• Package classes
• Create a class diagram