Work Product (Artifact): System Use-Case Diagram

This artifact captures the Use Cases, Actors, with their brief descriptions, and their relationships.

Purpose

To provide an overview of the use cases, actors and their relationships
To facilitate a better understanding of the system

Relationships

Roles	Responsible: Requirements Engineer	Modified By: Requirements Engineer
Input To	Mandatory: Prioritize and Partition Use Cases Trace Use Cases to System Requirements	Optional: None	External: None
Output From	Identify System Use Cases Identify System Use Cases

Main Description

This artifact should serve as a communication medium for customers, users, system developers. It also provides a basis for prioritizing and partitioning the system use cases.

Properties

Optional
Planned

Tailoring

Impact of not having	Without this artifact, taking an iterative, incremental development approach would be very difficult.
Representation Options	Representation options include: reports and diagrams from UML modeling tools, graphical representations created using drawing tools, and/or drawings on whiteboards. Most of the detailed information is captured in the use-cases themselves.