Succeeding with Use Cases: Working Smart to Deliver Quality

ISBN: 0321316436
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 109

Authors: Richard Denney

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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
Appendix D. Reports for Tracking Progress of Projects in Portfolio
Metadata for Use Case Status
References
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