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- Succeeding with Use Cases Working Smart to Deliver Quality
- Succeeding with Use Cases Working Smart to Deliver Quality
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series
- The Component Software Series
- Preface
- Overview of Parts and Chapters
- Who Should Read What
- Unified Software Development Process
- How Parts of This Book Relate
- What This Book Is Not
- Acknowledgments
- Part1.Quality Function Deployment
- Chapter 1. An Introduction to QFD: Driving Vision Vertically Through the Project
- The Language Gap
- QFD in Use Case-Driven Projects
- Running a QFD Workshop: Mega Motors Example
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 2. Aligning Decision Making and Synchronizing Distributed Development Horizontally in the Organization
- Using QFD to Align Decision Making Horizontally Across a Company
- Using QFD to Synchronize Distributed Development Horizontally Across Component Teams
- Chapter Review
- Part2.Software Reliability Engineering
- Chapter 3. Operational Profiles: Quantifying Frequency of Use of Use Cases
- Operational Profile of Use Case Scenarios
- Working Smarter: Scenarios of a Use Case
- Operational Profile of a Use Case Package
- Working Smarter: Use Case Packages
- Extending Operational Profiles to Address Critical Use Cases
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 4. Reliability and Knowing When to Stop Testing
- What Is Reliability?
- Failure Intensity
- The Swamp Report
- Determining the Effectiveness of Your SRE-Based Test Process
- Chapter Review
- Part3.Model-Based Specification (Preconditions, Postconditions, and Invariants)
- Chapter 5. Use Case Preconditions, Postconditions, and Invariants: What They Didn t Tell You, But You Need to Know
- Sanity Check Before Proceeding
- A Brief History of Preconditions and Postconditions
- Calculating Preconditions from Postconditions
- Why Does This Work?
- Modeling State Change
- Model-Based Specification
- Reasoning About State Through Time
- Exploring Boundary Condition Failures
- Further Thoughts: Preconditions, Postconditions, and Invariants in Use Cases
- Working Smart in How You Apply What You ve Learned
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 6. Triple Threat Test Design for Use Cases
- Triple Threat Test Cases?
- Applying the Extended Use Case Test Design Pattern
- Closing Thoughts
- Chapter Review
- Part4.Use Case Configuration Management
- Chapter7.Calculating Your Company s ROI in Use Case Configuration Management
- Overview of ROI
- Requirements Management Tools
- Calculating the ROI
- Conventions and Starting Assumptions
- The Cost
- The Benefits
- Bottom Line: Benefit to Cost Ratio
- Dealing with Uncertainty in the Model
- Chapter Review
- Chapter 8. Leveraging Your Investment in Use Case CM in Project Portfolio Management
- What this Chapter Is (and Isn t) About
- The Good Thing About Use Cases...
- Use Case Metadata (Requirements Attributes)
- How Are You Currently Invested?
- Managing the Pipeline
- Tracking the Status of the Portfolio via Use Cases
- Chapter Review
- Part5.Appendices
- Appendix A. Sample Use Case
- Appendix B. Bare-Bones Project Portfolio Database and Use Case Metadata
- Bare-Bones Portfolio Database
- Appendix C. Run Chart of FTEs Required by Project Portfolio
- Query to Sum Use Case Effort by Project Code
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