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Modern UML based software development processes have use cases specification as a keystone of functional requirement modeling. Use cases have been used with success in broader contexts than software development as systems engineering. Not all the use cases are equally critical for the system to satisfy its goals. Criticality analysis allows to identify the critical elements of a system. Applying criticality analysis to functional requirements of a system allows to identify which are the critical functionalities of a system. In this paper we present a use case model structuring scheme. We apply a method to evaluate the criticality of use cases of a system to our structuring model. We also propose the requirements for an UML profile for criticality analysis of systems.
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García, J.D., Carretero, J., Pérez, J.M., García, F. (2004). A Model for Use Case Priorization Using Criticality Analysis. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3046. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24768-5_53
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