Analysis Model:

Scenario-Based Modeling and

Use Case Diagrams

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 Use-Cases and Use-Case Scenarios

◼ Use Case is a collection of user scenarios that describe the thread of usage of a
system – how different users use an old software system or how they will would like to use
a new one.

◼ Each single Use Case scenario is described from the point-of-view of an “actor”—a
person (a human being) or device (a non-human being) that interacts with the software in
some way.

◼ Each single scenario answers multiple possible questions:

◼ Who is the primary actor (user), the secondary actor (s)?
◼ What are the actor’s goals?
◼ What preconditions should exist before the story begins?
◼ What main tasks or functions are performed by the actor?
◼ What extensions might be considered as the story is described?
◼ What variations in the actor’s interaction are possible?
◼ What system information will the actor acquire, produce, or change?
◼ Will the actor have to inform the system about changes in the external environment?
◼ What information does the actor desire from the system?
◼ Does the actor wish to be informed about unexpected changes?
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 Use Case Diagram in UML Diagram format

It is easy to mix up the definitions of use case

and use case scenario.

▪ A use case (as a class) represents ALL How to create Use-Cases (an algorithm):
actions that are required to enable or
abandon a goal. A use case has multiple 1) Identify all USERS of a new system
“paths” that can be taken by any user at any (human beings, non-human beings, other
one time. SW applications, online databases, etc.)
2) Identify all FUNCTIONES (FEATURES) of
▪ A use case scenario is a single path through a new system
the use case. 3) Identify RELATIONS between USERS and
FUNCTIONS.

Source: http://www.cs.wvu.edu/~tanner/cs230/repslds.pdf 3
 “Software Engineering” course:
Domain for most of course (in-classroom and homework)
assignments

AFTER March 27, 2023

◼ MyBradley current Bradley U. system for course registration

◼ MyBradley++ new (updated) system that contains proposed-by-students

modifications/improvements to be implemented

BEFORE March 27, 2023

◼ Webster Bradley Online Course Registration System

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 How to Create Use Case Diagram: Identify Users
(example: MyBradley system at Bradley U. for student acad. services)

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How to Create Use Case Diagram: Identify Functions
(three different approaches)

1. A list of all possible functions

2. lists of particular
functions per each
user/actor 6
How to Create Use Case Diagram: Identify Functions:
three approaches

3. fragments of Use Case

diagrams with particular
functions per each
user/actor

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Possible
Use Case Diagram
(USD)

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 Possible Use Case Diagram
(as created by one of past students in this course):
Creative Analysis

Try to identify
mistakes on this
Use Case diagram

+) What is good in this

example?
-) What is not so good in
this example?

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Activity Diagram

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 ent er password
and user ID
Activity Diagram
(for one type of users)
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SwimLane Diagrams

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Swimlane Diagrams ent er pas sword

and user ID

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which actor (if there are

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specific use-case) or analysis

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the action described by an

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 SwimLane Diagram =
a collection of possible activity
diagrams for various users

(as an example a single path –

given in yellow color)

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Source: http://tynerblain.com/blog/2007/04/10/what-are-use-case-scenarios/
 A Possible SwimLane diagram
related to the Webster system
(as created by one student in this course in the past)

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Scenario-Based Modeling. Use Case Diagrams.

Self-learning and Practice

1. Create the Use Case Diagram for
the current version of MyBradley
system (for academic activities only)

2. Create Activity Diagram for Student

actor in MyBradley system (for
academic activities only)

3. Create SwimLane Diagram with

“lanes” for Students + Advisers +
Acad. Admins + Databases actors in
MyBradley system (for academic
activities only)

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