Use Cases

Information

• Required by November 6th 2006, with a one week extension for use cases from sources outside the consortium. (eg conference, outstanding personal correspondence, etc)
• Please start each use case on a new page, linked from the main directory of use cases. (UseCaseList)
• In order to ensure that the system architecture will be as good as possible, it is important to be as thorough as possible, both in the description of each use case and coverage of the entire set of requirements for the project within the use cases.
• Any desired feature which is not supported by a use case now may not be possible to support in the future.
• You may attach any documents or diagrams to the page, as appropriate.

Template for Use Case description

Below is the template to use when submitting use cases. Copy/paste this text in the new use case page you want to create.

---+!! <nop>Use case title
_This is part of the submitted UseCaseList._
%TOC%

---++ Scenario
_A description of the scenario that you have in mind._

---++ Importance
_How important do you see this use case as?_

   * Must Support / Recommended / Desired / Future Possibility
   * ...

---++ Dependencies
_What other use cases are affected by the implementation of this one?_

   * [Databases usability / db integration / dating / authentication / cartography / bibliography / ...]

---++ Input
_Things that the user must/might supply to the system._

   * [Mandatory/Optional] Input Description
   * ...

---++ Output
_Things that the user will recieve in response to their request._

   * Information returned from the system to be displayed to the user
   * Ideas for possible user interface/formatting of display
   * ...

---++ Difficulties
_Areas in which you foresee problems/issues arising._

   * Description of difficulty
   * ...

---++ Example
_An example supporting this use case._

   * Example
   * ...

---++ Other Information
_Any other information that you think is important to include._

   * Description
   * ...

---++ Comments 
_Comment from other partner regarding the use case._

   * ...

-- RobSanderson - 08 Sep 2006