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Title: Use Cases: Requirements in Context, Second Edition by Daryl Kulak, Eamonn Guiney ISBN: 0-321-15498-3 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 25 July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Use Case Book I've Read So Far
Comment: Programmers naturally hate use cases. They seem boring, and having seen hundreds of them (written by others and handed to me) over the years, I had lost hope that this practice would ever be of any benefit. I had grown tired of constantly reading varying levels of abstraction and 'use-case-itis'. All this, despite the fact that Jacobson's original work and the UDP incorporation of use cases as central to that process was clearly a better way to go than wading through hundreds, sometimes thousands of pages of 'shall' statements that accompany most projects (and too often, lead to their failure).
Then I read this book. I now use it regularly in every requirements-related class I teach, and I tell every programmer I meet to buy this book. Imagine a use case book that programmers can actually get excited about! This book blazes new territory and its practical insights and humor make it a fun read, as well.
Here are the great highlights:
1. Properly scoping and relating use cases
2. Introducing Business Rules as 'first-class citizens"
3. Applying UDP iterations to the use case development process.
These last two items make the book stand out. Understanding the importance of business rules as enterprise-wide invariants that span use cases is ground-breaking. The four UDP iterations are ingenious because they can help to enforce the proper level of abstraction, which is a big problem area for use cases. Try it, you'll like it!
In addition, the book is loaded with great practical advice and examples of good (and bad!) use case text. And finally, the authors present the most compelling arguments I've ever heard for ditching traditional requirements-gathering methods (which have clearly FAILED), because use cases are, after all, requirements IN CONTEXT (like the title says). If every use case writer read this book and followed it's advice, the software crisis would be dealt a serious blow.
Bottom line : If you write use cases (or worse, are forced to implement bad use cases at gunpoint), get this book!
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful Use Cases
Comment: The best thing about this book is that the authors are not meekly presenting just a stream of bland bromides that echo the sentiments of a million other talking heads. On the contrary, they are quite opinionated and their opinions often illuminate some of the most important issues in the whole raging process debate. Specifically, their discussion of the uselessness of requirements that just appear as a gigantic list of commandments is truly on target. (The writers espouse attaching requirements to the appropriate [and specific] use case.) They also do a good job of dealing with the issue of scope and developing use cases for specific uses. Everyone who's read about use cases has confronted the issue of how to 'refine' them but this book does a better job than most at underlining the importance of scope in the iterative process.
The downsides of this book (IMHO) are:
1. The diagrams are all very simplistic. There really is no point in using a pictographic medium if there's nothing there.
2. The models that are talked about are also too simplistic (but I say that about every book).
3. There is a little bit of smugness about how *their* way is the sane and obvious answer to all that ails developers.
Still, I think this is one of the best Use Case books out there.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: Very interesting stuff and fluid understanding..Could have more topics though
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Title: Writing Effective Use Cases by Alistair Cockburn ISBN: 0201702258 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Use Case Modeling by Kurt Bittner, Ian Spence ISBN: 0201709139 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Software Requirements, Second Edition by Karl E. Wiegers ISBN: 0735618798 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 26 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition by Martin Fowler ISBN: 0321193687 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 19 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition by Dean Leffingwell, Don Widrig ISBN: 032112247X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 16 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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