This page contains links to resources regarding the use case-driven
development practice. This practice describes how to capture requirements with a
combination of use cases and system-wide requirements, and then drive development and testing from those use cases. This practice is documented in IBM® Rational® Method Composer Version 7.5.
Activities at this skill level provide an overview of the practice, an understanding of when the practice is best applied, and what tools and technologies are applicable.
The following table lists enablement activities by skill level.
Number
Activity type
Activity [click link]
Short description
Skill level
1
Method Content: self study
Review the practice in Rational Method Composer (if you do not have it, you can buy or download it here).
Review the main practice and How to adopt pages to get an overview of the practice, learn when it is applicable, and acquire strategies for adoption. Read the key concepts associated with the practice. Review the table of contents of the practice, to know what work products are produced, what tasks are performed, and what tools and technologies apply.
This link gives you a set of courses that will enable you to gain a good understanding of how to use IBM® Rational® Software Architect against the requirement models, subsequently leading to the creation of analysis and design models.
This article discusses use-case flow description and presents several strategies for managing details in these descriptions. These including using glossaries and domain models, and representing complex business rules and other special requirements.
Introductory
9
Method Content: self study
Review the work products, templates, tasks, and guidelines in Rational Method Composer (if you do not have it, you can buy or download it here).
The Rational Method Composer tasks explain how to perform this practice, while the guidelines provide additional detail. The work products and templates explain what is produced.
This article discusses a use-case point (UCP) estimation method based on function point analysis (FPA), which references Gustav Karner's 1993 M.Sc. thesis on this topic.
