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UML - Use Case best practices

I've been working on a document for one of my customers named "Use Case Best Practices", but then I decided to search the Internet to see if I could find anything similar to what I was thinking.

The best thing I've found is this Coad Letter on Borland's web site. There is enough meat here that I'm scrapping my plans and just suggesting they read that document instead. Kudos.

 

UML actors and requirements

Here's a simple but interesting quote from a "Use Case" book I was reading last night: 

"If the actor is not part of the system, then the requirements cannot be a part of the system."

This statement seems obvious, but reflecting on some of my own work I can see where I have occasionally strayed in this direction, and having reviewed the work of other people, I have often seen these types of requirements in requirements documentation.

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