Section 13.7. Using Packages to Organize Use Cases

13.7. Using Packages to Organize Use Cases

Just as packages group classes of similar functionality, packages also group other UML elements such as use cases. Figure 13-20 shows some use case packages from a CMS.

Rolling up use cases into higher levels of your system can help organize your model, allowing you to see which actors interact with which portions of the system, as shown in Figure 13-21.

Figure 13-20. Packaging major use case groups within a CMS

Figure 13-21. Packages enable a higher level view of how actors interact with the system