Use Case Training for User and System Requirements

Course Outline

Improve customer satisfaction and product delivery by applying techniques from this Use Case training course for User & System Requirements. With this use case training, you will understand the difference between user requirements and system requirements and gain the skills to capture software and IT business needs and requirements.

You will also write use cases to specify software requirements, draw UML diagrams to model the system, create the data and interface models, and develop an IT requirements document.

Use Case Training for User and System Requirements Benefits

In this user and system requirements training, you will learn how to:
- Develop requirements for IT and software-intensive systems.
- Build a use case-based requirements model.
- Write use cases.
- Model user interfaces using mock-ups and a data model.
Prerequisites

None.

Use Case Training Outline

Module 1: The Importance of Software Requirements

The software development life cycle

Defining and differentiating between requirement types
Locating requirement sources
Development approaches

Presenting software requirements

Structuring the requirements document
Requirements components: text, diagrams, data

Module 2: Structuring Your Project

Tuning your methodology to your project size

Matching the process to size and complexity of projects
Differentiating Agile from standard techniques

Analyzing stakeholder input

Identifying and prioritizing stakeholders
Eliciting initial requirements input
Iterating requirements collaboratively

Applying the requirements process

Elicitation
Analysis
Specification
Validation

Module 3: Capturing and Refining Use Cases

Writing user stories

Scripting user stories and use cases
Iteration and progressive elaboration of use cases

Creating structured use cases

Use cases as behavioral requirements
Identifying stakeholders and actors Naming and scoping use cases
Writing scenarios: main and alternatives
Adding preconditions and guarantees

Iterating use cases

Refining use cases with stakeholders
Factoring common steps
Discovering extension scenarios
Verifying use case completeness

Organizing use cases

Diagramming scenarios with UML
Choosing free text vs. formal use case notation

Module 4: Generating Interface Requirements

Integrating interface requirements

Supporting use cases with user interface mock-ups
Comparing types of interface

Producing interface models

Storyboarding and prototyping
Modeling interfaces with UML state diagrams and navigation maps

Module 5: Data Requirements

Analyzing data requirements

Exploring the use cases and the interface
Determining data business rules

Creating a requirements data model

Representing data models with UML class diagrams
Entities
Attributes
Associations
Adding associations' multiplicity
Maintaining the glossary