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use case analysis comparison table

Subject	use	have procedure	help	have purpose	define	has definition	be	assist	is a subtopic of	is a kind of	cover
analysis									2.2 - Classes and Objects	process
use case analysis	to eliminate proposed functionality if the functionality does not support any use case	determine the classes of users (or other systems) that will use the facilities of this system to determine the tasks that each actor will need to do with the system break each use case down into more detail	developers model different user roles	to model the system from the point of view of how users or other systems interact with this system when trying to achieve their objectives	the scope of the system, i.e. what the system must do and does not have to do	The process of dividing up the functionality of the system into use cases, and determining the relationships among those use cases	useful for requirements analysis	a software engineer to define the tasks that the user interface must help the user perform	7.3 - Developing Use Case Models of Systems	analysis	all aspects of software, such as an activity that is internal to a system

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