Chapter 4 - Business Use Case
Business Use Cases Business Use Cases Business events are useful to partition the work, but it is the work’s response to the event that now captures the interest of the requirements analyst. For every business event, there is a preplanned response to it, known as a business use case (BUC). The business use case is always a collection of identifiable processes, data that is retrieved and/or stored, output generated, messages sent, or some combination of these. Alternatively, we could simply say that the business use case is a unit of functionality. This unit is the basis for writing the functional and non-functional requirements. Understanding the Work: When we say “work,” we mean the system for doing business. This system includes the human tasks, the software systems, the machines, and the low-tech devices such as telephones, photocopiers, manual files, and notebooks. In fact, anything that is used to produce the owner’s goods, ...