Friday, November 3, 2006
The Case for and against Use Cases: If use cases are so simple, why are they so hard? - Professor Hadar Ziv
Abstract
“Use cases have become the de facto standard for capturing requirements in many organizations, especially those already using Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) with UML. Use cases are meant to be easy to communicate with a variety of stakeholders, yet users "in the trenches" report growing disillusion and dissatisfaction with use cases in practice.
In this presentation, Professor Hadar Ziv will overview and review use cases, with emphasis on challenges experienced by practitioners. Hadar will cover both core issues such as use case scope, level, goals and actors, as well as advanced topics such as use case relationships, including includes and extends.
He will discuss several articles - by well-known authors - reporting on use-case misuse and abuse, and conclude with his "top ten" list of recommendations for use-case success.”
Your Presenter: Hadar Ziv is a Professor of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at UC Irvine, with over 20 years of experience in both academia and industry. Professionally, he has been an evangelist and change agent for several organizations wishing to upgrade their software development process to include requirements specification with use cases, object-oriented analysis and design with UML, and corresponding test strategies. To this end, Hadar has provided a mix of consulting, training and mentoring services to companies such as the Capital Group Companies, Fidelity National Title, Logicon (now Northrop Grumman), Experian, Cendant, and most recently St. Jude Medical in Sylmar , CA . Several of the projects have since been completed and deployed successfully; see for example the TitlePoint demonstration here: http://www.propertyinsight.biz/titlepoint.html
Academically, Professor Ziv regularly teaches an undergraduate software-project course for ICS seniors, where students employ many of the same tools and methods to develop working software systems for real customers. He was awarded UC Irvine's Excellence in Teaching award in 2003. Hadar has also published research articles in international conferences and journals, most recently in the ROSATEA 2006 workshop in Portland , Maine , ASE 2006 conference in Tokyo , Japan , and the October 2006 issue of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS).
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Logistics
Location:Northrop Grumman E2 Presentation Center (in tall building off of Entrance 2), Redondo Beach, CA (formerly TRW) - 2299 Marine Ave., Redondo Beach, CA 90278
Directions: Take the 405 Inglewood exit (southbound it's the exit after Rosecrans East, northbound it's the exit just after Hawthorne) and go north on Inglewood Avenue (southbound, turn left at the end of the ramp, northbound, turn right). Turn left at Marine. Go west under the freeway past the railroad tracks and Redondo Beach Avenue to Entrance 2 at Mettler Drive. Turn left into the parking lot . E2 is the tall building to your right. (See page 733 A5 of the Thomas Brothers Guide.)
Time: 9 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Admission: Free
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