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International Conference on Software Reuse

ICSR 2002: Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools pp 210–226Cite as

Supporting Reusable Use Cases

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Use cases are a part of common practice for capturing functional requirements for object-oriented software development. But, as with any artifact, there is a cost of producing them. Reusing use cases can reduce this cost. We discuss how use cases can be made reusable, in particular looking at the reusability of essential use cases. We also introduce Ukase, a web-based use case management tool that provides support for the reuse of use cases.

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  1. School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    Robert Biddle, James Noble & Ewan Tempero

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  1. Department of Computing Science Centre for Software Reliability, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Cristina Gacek

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Biddle, R., Noble, J., Tempero, E. (2002). Supporting Reusable Use Cases. In: Gacek, C. (eds) Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools. ICSR 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46020-9_15

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