2 Practical Use Case Modeling

Frank J. Armour, George Mason University and Granville Miller, Make Systems Inc.

Convention Centre
Ballroom A

This full day tutorial will present a practitioner's approach to developing use cases. The tutorial will first present the basic concepts and approaches involved in use case modeling. The tutorial will then touch on advanced topics including: how to organize a large use case model, when and how to apply extends and adds relationships, how to model business processes, change cases, and use case frameworks. At the end of the day, the participant will have gained the basic knowledge necessary to create use cases in a project setting. Practical examples will be used to demonstrate the concepts and methods presented in lecture. The step-by-step approach takes a case study from the definition of the high level use cases to an expanded, elaborated use case model

Attendee Background: The intended audience for the tutorial is business analysts, project leaders, developers, customers, and users involved or who have a stake in the use case modeling process.

Frank Armour is currently an Associate Research Professor at George Mason University in the Department of Information Systems and Software Engineering. His interests include use case modeling, requirements engineering, systems architecture, and object-oriented development. At George Mason University, Frank teaches courses on Requirements Engineering, Object Oriented Design and Software Systems Engineering.

Granville Miller is currently the Manager of the Framework Development Team at Make Systems. His interests include the software development process, use cases, framework development, and metrics. Mr. Miller has extensive experience in developing products and frameworks in telecommunications systems. He was part of the original team of developers responsible for IBM's VisualAge product, has written several papers on OOT, and presented tutorials and co-chaired workshops at several OO conferences.