Artifact: System Use-Case Diagram
This artifact captures the Use Cases, Actors, with their brief descriptions, and their relationships.
Domains: Systems Requirements
Purpose
  • To provide an overview of the use cases, actors and their relationships
  • To facilitate a better understanding of the system
Relationships
Description
Main DescriptionThis artifact should serve as a communication medium for customers, users, system developers. It also provides a basis for prioritizing and partitioning the system use cases.
Tailoring
Impact of not havingWithout this artifact, taking an iterative, incremental development approach would be very difficult.
Representation OptionsRepresentation options include: reports and diagrams from UML modeling tools, graphical representations created using drawing tools, and/or drawings on whiteboards. Most of the detailed information is captured in the use-cases themselves.