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| <purpose><p>
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| The primary purpose of the Use Case is to capture the required system behavior from the perspective of the end user, to
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| achieve one or more goals. Different users benefit in different ways, of course:
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| </p>
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| <ul>
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| <li>
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| <strong>Customers</strong> use them to describe, or at least to approve, the description of the system's behavior.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <strong>Potential users</strong> use them to understand the system's behavior.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <strong>Architects</strong> use them to identify architecturally significant functionality.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <strong>Developers</strong> use them to understand the required system behavior so they can identify classes from
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| the Use Cases' flow of events.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <strong>Testers</strong> use them as a basis for identifying a subset of the required Test Cases.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <strong>M</strong><b>anagers</b> use them to plan and assess the work for each iteration.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| <strong>Technical writers</strong> use them to understand the sequence of system behavior that they need to
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| describe in the documentation.
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| </li>
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| </ul></purpose> |
| <representationOptions><p> Decide the extent to which you will elaborate on Use 
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| Cases: </p>
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| <ul>
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| 
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| <li> Describe only major flows? </li>
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| 
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| <li> Describe only the most important Use Cases? </li>
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| 
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| <li>Fully describe preconditions and post-conditions? </li>
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| 
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| <li> Describe scenarios first, and then raise the level of abstraction by describing 
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| Use Case flows? </li>
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| </ul></representationOptions> |
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