Use Case Dialog Patterns

 

Once you start writing use cases you'll realise that lots of kind of use cases come up over and over again -- that there are actually patterns in the dialogue bodies of essential use case themselves. This section lists a number of these patterns. In the interests of space, we give only the bare bones of each pattern.

• Alarm Use Case
  • Example
  • Consequences
• Requesting Use Case
  • Example
• Monitoring Use Case
  • Example
• Commanding Use Case
  • Example
• Prompting Step
  • Example
• Confirming Step
  • Example