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What is Visual Use CaseTM
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Visual Use CaseTM
is a revolutionary, easy-to-use, Use Case Authoring and Diagramming
tool.
Visual Use Case will help you
write effective Use Cases faster and help you document your
system's requirements accurately.
How does Visual Use CaseTM fit into your project?
Experts agree, the most important element of
Use Case
Analysis is the authoring of Use Case "flow" or
"narrative". However traditional UML tools provide non-existent to
poor support for this all important activity. As a result, project teams
often use word processors and a myriad of templates to document Use
Cases. Using word processors
to write Use Cases has several pitfalls:
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Team members use
different styles
to write Use Cases.
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It is often difficult to tell
who has the latest version of a document.
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It is difficult to tell
who changed
the Use Case and when and most importantly "what was changed?".
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If a Use Case is modified,
what design and code is impacted as a result.
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Whenever you change a flow-of-events by
inserting or removing a step, all steps and corresponding
extensions have to be manually renumbered
to make the Use Case consistent.
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And worst of all, much of the effort is
wasted because Use Case documents become obsolete very
fast, because the step numbering has to be maintained, links to
<<include>> and <<extend>> have to be maintained, references from
'Alternate' flows have to be maintained and so on.
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In short, word processor documents place
a heavy workload on team to maintain and ensure that they are
current, consistent and distributed to all stakeholders.
Visual Use Case provides a
highly effective Use Case authoring platform for writing
'live' hyperlinked Use Cases
that can be easily maintained and shared with everyone. Whenever
needed, you can also generate word processor documents from them.
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Key Benefits and Features
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Work
collaboratively & reduce miscommunication |
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Multi-user repository
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Multiple users can connect
simultaneously
to the Use Case repository.
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Visual Use Case automatically ensures that two
users don't overwrite each others work.
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Use Cases are stored in industry
standard database servers such as Oracle, Interbase,
Firebird (included with Visual Use Case).
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Your users can view the latest
versions of Use Cases that the development team is
implementing.
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Everyone always has access to
the latest versions of Use Cases.
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Keep track of
Who, What and When |
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Versioned Repository
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Automatically keep a record of
who changed
a Use Case, when and exactly what was changed.
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Automatically keep a record of every
version of the Use Case document for reference or lookup.
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If something goes wrong, you can always
backtrack to an older version of use case considered
stable.
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Write Uses Case
"flows" that are alive |
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Live hyperlinks to <<included>> and
<<extended>> Use Cases
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Embed 'live' hyperlinks to
<<included>> and <<extended>> Use Cases.
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Easily navigate to related use cases
with a click.
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Hyperlinks stay valid and active
even when you change names for <<included>> or <<extended>>
use cases.
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Say good bye to
tedious re-numbering of steps with every change! |
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Automatic re-numbering of steps and links to 'Alternate
Flows' etc
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Want to add step in between a 50 step
Use Case with 10 branches to alternate flows?
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Go ahead and do it, Visual Use Case will
automatically re-number steps and maintain correct
references from 'Alternate flows' etc.
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A picture is
worth a thousand words |
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Integrated Use Case Diagramming tool
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Create Use Case diagrams to
communicate better with users and developers.
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Diagramming tool is integrated with
repository.
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Actors and Use Cases placed on the
diagram are automatically available in the repository
for further elaboration.
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Say good bye to
word processor |
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Powerful 'Rich text editing' with
document generation
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Visual Use Case provides a structured
editing environment for Use case which is far better than
using an ordinary word processor
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'Rich text editing' feature
ensures that you wont miss your favorite word processor.
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Continue to use your favorite styles
such as bold, italics, bullets, embedded tables and images,
etc.
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When needed, generate word processor
documents as per your defined templates.
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Work as a unified
team, whether across cubicles or across time zones |
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Distributed team capability
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