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Sketching Use-Case Scenarios Based on Use-Case Goals and Patterns

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Use cases are a scenario-based technique used to express functional requirements from the user perspective. They are often elicited using a top-down approach by first identifying their goals and later documenting their scenarios. In the paper, we investigate the possibility of supporting analysts in progressing from definitions of use-case goals to full documentation of their scenarios. We propose a semi-automatic approach to generate use-case scenarios based on use-case patterns. The proposed approach is a result of an empirical analysis of 217 use cases from 12 projects. The analysis revealed that a notion of use-case transaction could be used to organize use-case patterns into a catalog of patterns. We have implemented a prototype tool called UC-Sketch to illustrate the proposed idea. The acceptance of the proposed approach by its potential users was assessed through the use of Technology Acceptance Model.

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  1. Faculty of Computing, Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Ul. Piotrowo 2, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

    Mirosław Ochodek, Krystian Koronowski, Adam Matysiak, Piotr Miklosik & Sylwia Kopczyńska

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Ochodek, M., Koronowski, K., Matysiak, A., Miklosik, P., Kopczyńska, S. (2017). Sketching Use-Case Scenarios Based on Use-Case Goals and Patterns. In: Madeyski, L., Śmiałek, M., Hnatkowska, B., Huzar, Z. (eds) Software Engineering: Challenges and Solutions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 504. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43606-7_2

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