Succeeding with Use Cases: Working Smart to Deliver Quality (Addison-Wesley Object Technology) [Paperback]

From a "problem/solution" perspective, use cases solve some of the greatest

problems in software engineering; but they don't solve all the problems in the

software world. This book focuses on the topic of quality. The author has

borrowed from other disciplines, picking up the bits that are good at solving

problems, and bringing them back to the use case community. The book then

shows how to re-apply these technique with use cases to solve problems you

are having with use cases.

As use cases continue to mature and gain further acceptance, future

improvements in use case driven development are likely to arise from the

cross-pollination with other areas of software engineering. This book looks at

four unique areas -- Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Formal

Methods/Safety-Critical System, Software Reliability Engineering, and Software

Configuration Management in the form of Requirements Management tools.

The book pulls practical ideas from each of these four areas that can be applied

to use case driven development and help organizations work smart to boost the

quality of their delivered products.

Build on Use Cases to Deliver Higher-Quality, Higher-Value Software

You can dramatically improve software quality and value by integrating use cases with best-practice software quality engineering disciplines.

Richard Denney presents practical, cost-effective techniques that help your entire development organization deliver superior software.

Using realistic examples, Denney demonstrates how to complement use cases with Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Software Reliability Engineering (SRE), Model-Based Specification (preconditions, postconditions, and invariants), Requirements Configuration Management, and Project Portfolio Management. Denney's techniques address challenges faced by project and product managers, team leads, developers, designers, software engineers, and testers alike. These techniques offer immense value no matter what methodology you use—from the Unified Process to Extreme Programming.

• Use QFD to make sure you release products that are true to your business drivers

• Drive your project's vision vertically, from senior management and marketing to the development team

• Align/synchronize distributed development horizontally across component teams, product teams, and business groups

• Use SRE to maximize reliability and customer satisfaction—while minimizing engineering costs

• Build use case operational profiles that help you spend development dollars more intelligently

• Get solid metrics that tell you when it's time to stop testing

• Use Model-Based Specification to sharpen your analysis of potential failures

• Understand precondition and postcondition realities they never mentioned in "Use Case 101"

• Design effective test cases using preconditions, postconditions, and invariants

• Use Configuration Management of Use Cases to help your company work smarter

• Leverage use cases in Project Portfolio Management—quite possibly the most valuable process improvement you can make

• Calculate ROI on your company's investments in a requirements management tool and process

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