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Preliminary design use cases: combining use cases and event response lists for reuse and legacy system enhancement

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 23, Issue 1

Pages 68 - 71

https://doi.org/10.1145/272263.272281

Published: 01 January 1998 Publication History

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This report describes an approach to combining Use Cases with elements from Event Response Lists to help improve requirements understanding. The format suggested for the combination, called the Preliminary Design Use Cas, proves particularly effective in facilitating reuse of existing system elements. It also supports the definition of extensions to existing systems, and encourages dialogue between customers, analysts and designers. The approach has resulted from industrial practice and has proven particularly successful.

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Preliminary design use cases: combining use cases and event response lists for reuse and legacy system enhancement
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 23, Issue 1

January 1998

106 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/272263

Editor:
Will Tracz

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