Today's assignment is UseCaseSpecification. Our use cases are here.
Our team drew up a list of the use cases we wanted, then divided them up to work on them. I expected that would lead to two different styles of use case at the end, but I was surprised at how different they turned out to be. My partner, Kevin English, took a much more formal approach. For example, his alternates always go back to the beginning and start from scratch, while mine often fork off in the middle of the typical case. Also, my mock-ups look like napkin doodles.
We actually cut out a lot of use cases because there were so many. Finding, adding, and editing each of the three types of things (collaboration, organization, and researcher) would already be nine and our target was six to twelve. We ended up not having separate use cases for finding things, and just including that as a step in editing. We also combined all the analysis into one use case.
We mostly followed the tips on how to write good use cases, but I think mine might have been a little on the terse side. It's very easy to come up with use cases, but it's hard to remember all the rules and it's easy to do too many.
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