Activity generalisation

[markl]

Hello

I've found it useful to generalize use cases but activities cannot be generalized. For instance I have three types of film editing activities, one with each of 3 pieces of software, montage 1, 2 and 3. But these are all 'montage' and I would like to represent them as specializations of the montage activity. Should I be using use cases? Thanks

[qwerty]

Generally avoid the use of use case generalization :-)

But if you can argue for it and know the pitfalls you can do it. You should consult Writing Effective Use Cases by Cockburn.

q.