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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Stuart Trotter on August 04, 2006, 08:59:29 am

Title: Child scenarios in documentation
Post by: Stuart Trotter on August 04, 2006, 08:59:29 am

Hi,

I've started using more general use cases such as Manage Contacts in my diagrams which wrap up the CRUD operations for that use case. I then make that use case composite and detail the  Add Contact, Update Contact, etc... use cases within the child diagram. This all works great until it comes time to produce a use case document; at this point I edit the use case template and insert child elements, but where do I find a child scenario tag??? I don't seem to have a way of displaying the child scenarios.

I'm hoping that I'm just being thick and missing something obvious.

Any light shedding appreciated, thanks  ;D

Stuart

Title: Re: Child scenarios in documentation
Post by: Jan ´Bary´ Glas on August 04, 2006, 12:46:29 pm

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Hi,

I've started using more general use cases such as Manage Contacts in my diagrams

That is super.

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which wrap up the CRUD operations for that use case.

That is not so super. Use cases are not intended to provide functional decomposition. The goal of your use is probably "to be able to contact (customers or  vendors...)".  
Use cases are intended to communication between analyst and business. And the business needs to find the concact if he needs it. He may hire a wizzard, an office girl or SW product. The use case is the same - as you said Manage contacts.
That use case has one basic (happy day) scenario - what steps usually lead to the goal. It may be scenario, where you fill in (SW or paper or ...) data. The alternatives may be: The contacts's profile doesn't exist, I will not need the contact, Archive the contact...

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