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qwerty

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Working with struc. UC scenarios
« on: July 15, 2012, 05:16:08 am »
Does anyone successfully work with structured UC scenarios? I'm currently playing around with that feature. I stumbled over a couple of issues at once almost immediately:
1) The Uses column does not really look like being formatted correctly. I added one value manually and the second via the Manage Uses Context List...
2) When a line is highlighted you can only read the Step and Action column. The others only by using a magnification glass.
3) Why is the tab "Structured Scenarios" greyed out as if disabled - which it isn't?
4) Why does the dialogue often open with the "Structured Scenarios" tab instead of "Description" where the list of scenarios is listed?
5) Why is the tab named "Structured Scenarios" and not ""Structured?Scenario Steps" since the scenarios itself are to be found under "Description"?
6) Why then is "Description" not named "List of Scenarios"?
7) Why this switching between these two tabs which makes me confused which steps I'm currently dealing with and which hides the alternates?

q.

PS: Interestingly when you click onto one of those Uses references EA opens a second property window. If you have circle references you can open up the properties for a single class more than once. EAUI

Since how many years has this been release? Still looks like beta.
« Last Edit: July 15, 2012, 06:34:24 am by qwerty »

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Re: Working with struc. UC scenarios
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2012, 11:58:04 pm »
Hi,  we've been using the Structured Scenarios for about 18 months to detail our use cases. This is working very well for us. We use the "uses" column to trace to Business Rules and Glossary definitions.  This has the advantage of not cluttering the use case with excessive detail, gives us re-use and can be pulled out with the Use Case on the RTF generated documentation.

Generally there is no need to use the "Description" tab except for deleting unwanted alternatives so defaulting to the Scenarios tab works for us.  :)

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Re: Working with struc. UC scenarios
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2012, 02:21:34 am »
Hi All

I have being using UC Structured Spec for long time also, and us ethe Uses and Results columns for Busines Rules and Log events that should result at the stpe level.
It works pretty nice when the Internal Test Case are generated from the UC.
I give a 9 out of 10, what I don't like is the extra space EA adds to either columns, when more than one Business Rule is added, lets say I add 2 or more Business Rules (which are actions) EA adds extra space to the step.
Best regards

Jose Zouain

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Re: Working with struc. UC scenarios
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2012, 04:41:42 am »
Ooops. Everyone's back from holiday?

So it seems's it's only me finding this weird while others like it (much). Makes me think I'm too picky...

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Re: Working with struc. UC scenarios
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2012, 04:18:24 pm »
It is indeed a bit weird, but I guess we are used to it now (EAUI)

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