Use Cases + Quality Engineering =

Succeeding With Use Cases:

Working Smart to Deliver Quality

A whole new perspective on use case driven development !

Borrowing techniques from quality engineering, and using realistic examples, this book will show you new ways to leverage use cases:

Use QFD to make sure you release products that are true to your business drivers

• Drive your project's vision vertically, from senior management and marketing to the development team
• Align/synchronize distributed development horizontally across component teams, product teams, and business groups

Use Software Reliability Engineering to maximize reliability and customer satisfaction—while minimizing engineering costs

• Build use case operational profiles that help you spend development dollars more intelligently
• Get solid metrics that tell you when it's time to stop testing

Use Model-Based Specification (preconditions, postconditions and invariants) to sharpen your analysis of potential failures

• Understand precondition and postcondition realities they never mentioned in "Use Case 101"
• Design effective test cases using preconditions, postconditions and invariants

Use Configuration Management of Use Cases to help your company work smarter

• Leverage use cases in Project Portfolio Management—quite possibly the most valuable process improvement you can make
• Calculate ROI on your companies investment in a requirements management tool and process