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In the world of use case modeling, there is this concept of an actor . Actors are the things (human or otherwise) outside of your system that will interact with it in some way. Actors are not real people – they are the roles that those people (or systems...
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People new to use cases are often unsure of where to start gathering requirements. I suggest creating a context diagram. A context diagram is a high-level, informal view of three things: the system you're going to be gathering requirements for, the things...
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Russell, a business analyst with a major logistics services company, has great things to say about using CaseComplete to elicit requirements and generate project documentation: ... Try CaseComplete by Serlio. This tool is very intuitive, inexpensive,...
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So why should you write use cases anyhow? Why are they any better than other ways of specifying requirements? There are many reasons, but two are key: First, use cases guide us toward the more important requirements and second, use cases are more easily...
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Here’s something that I discovered a long time ago and only recently remembered when running Case Complete on another computer. When a table in Word doesn’t show any borders, Word will show light-grey gridlines. You can choose to hide these gridlines...
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Well I haven’t blogged as much as I intended to this year, but here’s another quick tip as we close out the year. If you have an extension attached to a step in your use case and you decide that you want it attached to a different step, it’s pretty simple...
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Here's a quick tip that is probably no big surprise but you may not have thought about. If you have a list of items in some other application such as Word, Excel or just plain text, and each item is on its own line, you can copy the list and paste into...
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It's been quite a while since I last posted. Hopefully in the upcoming weeks I'll start posting Case Complete tips, especially now that version 2.5 has been released. In the meantime, here's a fun one to get the ball rolling. Those of you who know me...
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Number two in a series of tips and tricks for Case Complete. Did you know you can change properties for more than one item at a time? For example, let’s say you would like to set complexity to medium for a large number of use cases. First select the use...
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Here is the first in a series of tips and tricks for Case Complete. You may already know about many of these items, but there may be one or two that you’ll find helpful, so keep checking back. Some of the forms and dialogs that Case Complete brings up...
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I received an inquiry from a potential customer the other day asking whether Case Complete (and use cases in general) are useful for established products. As a VAR, they make minor changes to existing products, such as adding buttons or menu items but...
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Some of you may have noticed that we released a minor update to 2.0 last week, cleverly named "build 2133". There were a half dozen or so small fixes that went into this build, most of which people will never run into, so there isn’t any need to rush...
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Here’s a little bit about myself and my role(s) at Serlio Software . I am one of the 4 co-founders of Serlio Software and am currently the architect and lead developer of Case Complete . In the summer of 2004, I had the privilege to be one of the authors...
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Welcome to the new Case Complete Community site. We are happy to finally have a public forum for you to ask questions and share your ideas about Case Complete , use case modeling, requirements management, and software development in general. In addition,...
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