Structured Use Case Descriptions

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  • Course:Structured Use Case Descriptions
  • Course ID:WREQ Duration:2-3 days Where: Your Office (7+ Persons)
  • Available as a private, customized course for your group at your offices or ours and in some cases as a WebLive(TM) class.

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Course Outline

  • Introduction to Requirements Documentation
    • Requirements process overview
    • Documentation standards
    • Audience
    • Functional and non-functional requirements
    • Use case concepts
    • Understanding the context diagram
  • Components of a Functional Requirements Specification
    • Creating an information flow diagram for a business process
    • Flow diagram notation and examples
    • Elements of a use case description
    • Alternatives vs. extensions
  • Main Success Scenarios
    • Writing an introductory narrative
    • Writing pre- and post-conditions
    • Writing the  steps of the main success scenario
  • Extensions, Alternatives, and Fragments
    • Writing the steps of extensions
    • Writing the steps of alternatives
    • Writing the steps of fragments
  • Writing Data Specifications
    • Data elements in structured use case descriptions
    • Creating a data dictionary
    • Editing use case descriptions for data element consistency
    • Writing data structure specifications
  • Non-functional Requirements
    • Writing performance requirements
    • Writing interface requirements
    • Writing design constraints
    • Writing system characteristics
  • Inspecting Requirements Specifications
    • Inspection process
    • Benefits and costs
    • Participants
    • What to look for
  • Wrap-up:  Course Recap and Discussion
    • Lessons learned
    • Where to go from here

 

 

Course Overview

Course in a Nutshell

Perhaps the single most significant factor that drives successful software projects – those that meet customer and user needs – is the availability of a complete, consistent, clear, correct, testable set of functional and non-functional requirements.  Clearly, organizations that can produce coherent, complete, consistent functional and non-functional requirements properly enjoy a decided competitive advantage, and are most likely to enjoy substantial returns on their software engineering investments. This course is dedicated to the science and craft of requirements engineering.

 

Customize It!

  • Are you a member of an organization that produces real-time systems? We can create a version of the course that addresses requirements specifications for real-time systems.
  • Similarly, if you have requirements management responsibility, we can orient the course toward the viewpoint of requirements management.
  • Does your organization use agile methods?  If so, we can customize the course to address requirements engineering in an agile development environment.

 

Learn How To

  • Understand the major sections of the system requirements specification: functional requirements; data dictionary; performance requirements; interface requirements; design constraints; and characteristics
  • Examine the role of the context diagram as a starting point for requirements engineering and system testing
  • Define the nature and role of the use case as a vehicle for expressing functional requirements, and as a basis for specifying non-functional requirements as well.

 

 

 

Audience / Prerequisites

Aimed At

Information Technology (IT) practitioners including analysts, testers, developers, managers, and quality assurance specialists, with current or near-future requirements engineering responsibilities.

 

Prerequisites

None