Requirements Analysis and Modeling with Use Cases

This intensive, hands-on course addresses the requirements analysis process by applying Use Case modeling techniques. Through a series of lectures and lab exercises, course attendees will thoroughly explore designing and developing Use Cases and using them to gather and analyze requirements.

This course can be taught with or without a visual modeling tool such as Rational Rose or Visio although no specific training is provided on these tools.

Participants should be familiar with the basics of analysis and design and the software development lifecycle.

After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe the requirements analysis process, industry standards, and best practices
• Apply Use Case modeling to define business and system requirements
• Develop Use Case models
• Explain the components of a Use Case
• Explain how Use Cases drive design, development, testing, and documentation activities
• Apply Use Case modeling for change and scope management during the lifecycle of a project
• Describe the tools that can be used for Use Case modeling

This course may prove useful to people such as business Analysts, Business Users, System/Software Analysts, Software Designers, and anyone else who is involved in requirements capture, specification, use, or management.

1 day

Instructor-led course, with written exercises and interactive activities.

Requirements Analysis

• The Requirements Analysis Process
  • Industry Standards and Best Practices
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML)
  • Rational Unified Process (RUP)
  • The Requirements Matrix
• Business Process Modeling
  • Tools for Business Process Modeling
  • Activity Diagrams

Use Cases and Actors

• Use Case Diagrams
  • Tools for Use Case Modeling
  • Components of a Use Case Diagram
• Actors
  • Types of Actors
  • Relationship between Actors and Use Cases

Components of a Use Case

• Introduction to Components
• Components
  • Input and Output
  • Frequency and Issues
• Super Use Case and Sub Use Case

Design and Development with Use Cases

• Uses and Extends Relationships
• Applying Use Cases
  • Custom Development
  • Package Development
  • Use Cases as Test Scripts
• Role of Use Cases
  • Level of Detail
  • Managing Scope Creep
  • Change Management
  • Traceability Check

Use Case Modeling Activity

• Modeling Use Cases: Start to Finish
  • Develop Activity Diagram
  • Identify Actors
  • Identify Use Cases
  • Develop Use Cases
  • Model Use Case-Actor relationship
  • Model Uses relationship
  • Model Extends relationship
  • Develop Use Case Diagram
• Resources

Overhead projector, flipcharts. No computers are required, although systems installed with a drawing package or UML modelling software may be used for some exercises if desired.