In Praise of Use Cases
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In this paper I argue that student software developers should be concerned not just with tersely expressed requirements (‘user stories’), but with more involved ‘use cases’. By encouraging developers to consider system behavior in some detail, the use-case approach lays the foundations for a coherent analysis of the object-based components that realize those behaviors. Though not objects in themselves, use cases encourage an object-oriented mindset. I consider some of the pitfalls that students must avoid when they are working with use cases, and propose an automated tutorial to help tackle some recurring
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تاریخ انتشار 2017