An Overview of Steps

Developing a Basic Requirements Model

To develop a basic Use Case Analysis model follow these steps:

1.	Identify and add Actors to the Repository

2.	Review Actors and Goals list with Stakeholders

3.	Convert Actor Goals into Use Cases

4.	Illustrate Actor-Use Case interactions using Use Case Diagrams

5.	Build the Project Glossary

6.	Elaborate Use Case Scenarios (Flow-of-events)

7.	Visualize Use Case text using automatically generated diagrams

8.	Visualize Use Case as a Flow Diagram

9.	Visualize Use Case as a Swimlane Diagram

10.	Visualize Use Case as an Activity Diagram

After finishing these steps you will have the following artifacts defined in the repository:

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Actors

•	Use Case Diagrams

•	Use Case Flow-of-events (Scenarios)

•	Glossary of Terms and Acronyms for your project

Developing a Comprehensive Requirements Model

11.	Specify supplementary Requirements and Business Rules for Use Cases

12.	Link Requirements and Business Rules to Use Case Steps

13.	Define Data Entity definitions (Entity/Table names, Fields, etc.)

14.	Link Use Cases with Data Entity definitions

15.	Add Screen Prototypes to the Repository

16.	Build Screen Mockups (Screen Wireframes)

17.	Link Use Cases with Screen Prototypes

18.	Generate Test Cases from Use Cases

19.	Generate Use Case specifications document

20.	Online Reviews and Approvals

After finishing these steps you will have the following artifacts defined in the repository:

•	Supplementary Requirements (Functional and Non-Functional) defined and linked to Use Cases

•	Business Rules defined and linked to Use Cases

•	Data Model defined and linked to Use Cases (Version 5.1)

•	Screen Prototypes defined and linked to Use Case steps

•	Test Cases (automatically generated and traced from Use Cases)