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General Board / Re: Use Case scenarios

« on: February 27, 2003, 08:30:37 am »

This thread is old, but I wanted to add one comment.

I understand a UC scenario to be a data fill of the use case, in other words, a specific instance of the use case with given data.

However, this is not how I use EA scenarios. I use EA "scenarios" to encode Use Case "Alternative Paths", i.e. exceptions or alternatives to the basic path. This keeps my basic path nice and clean and tight. I then encode the alternative paths as scenarios. This looks good on the documentation, too, and reads well.

There is no real mechanism in EA, except perhaps "Test Cases" to capture the meaning of scenarios as data fill, i.e. the two column view.

I might drop Geoff a note to see what he thinks about clarifying the language, as I was initially quite confused about what EA scenarios were intended for.

How do other people use EA scenarios?

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General Board / Re: Outline Numbering

« on: February 27, 2003, 08:18:51 am »

Thanks for all the suggestions...

For this pass of my document, I have set up a style, and I am using the bookmark include strategy, i.e. I write in word, then insert the specific thing I want with using a bookmark. THis is giving better formatting results - the style is not overriden by the RTF. However, it is MUCH more labour intensive, which is not good.

I will experiment with the suggestions provided and let you know what I find. Please keep posting suggestions if you have them.

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General Board / Re: Outline Numbering

« on: February 04, 2003, 11:39:55 am »

Thanks for your response.

What I currently do is, lets say, run the Use Case View RTF documentation into UCV.rtf. Then I Insert/File UCV.rtf, and promote/demote as required.

But the problem is I can't get requirements, use cases, etc numbered, in that if I just change the style, everything goes wacky - tabs, hanging indents, numbering are basically all wrong.

So it sounds like we are doing the same thing, you are just including the bits at a finer grain basis. What did you do to get the formatting style of the included file correct?

Thanks for any help...