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From Use Case Diagrams to Operational Profiles: Using QFD to Find the High Traffic Use Cases in Your System (read review by Seilevel )

Key words: Use Case Diagrams, QFD, Operational Profiles, Reliability, Usability, Performance

While use case diagrams are a great tool for high level communication, with just a bit more effort you can turn that diagram into a tool for analyzing the relative “traffic” use cases in your product will receive. In this article you are going to see how to use your use case diagrams -- coupled with QFD -- to generate an operational profile of your product, providing information that will give you a better idea of the parts of the system that warrant extra attention in terms of making your product easy to use, highly performant, and reliable.

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Calculating Use Case Preconditions from Postconditions for Non-Numeric Problems

Key words: Preconditions, Postconditions, Invariants, Use Case Failure Analysis, Model-based Specification

One of the disciplines discussed in the book is a time tested technique for specifying the expected behavior of abstract data types and objects: model-based specification. In the book the technique is applied to the problem of use case failure analysis: the analysis of potential ways a system, specified by use cases, might fail. In doing so a little known (in the use case community) aspect of preconditions is discussed: preconditions can be calculated from postconditions.

In the book all examples presented are numeric in nature but model-based specification and calculated preconditions are certainly not limited to numeric applications. In this white-paper you will how to apply this technique to the parts of use cases that can be modeled as sets; doing so broadens the scope of applications to which you can apply this technique for use case failure analysis.

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