> I installed VSEA today as well as Visio. I'm somewhat new to
> formal architectural diagrams but I believe that I understand
> the fundamentals quite well. Where I'm having some confusion
> is with regards to the transition between a "Use Case" and a
> "Static Structure".

If you figure out how to do this I'm sure the fine Folks at Rational would
love to hear from you! :)

Honestly this is the "wet: part of the process.  You can think of Use Cases
as human description of program functionality.  It is somewhat informal -
for a reason.  To not impose structure at the functional description time.
Its the job of the software engineer to come up with a design that meets the
functionality described in the Use Cases.

> Is this true? Otherwise I don't understand the point behind
> drilling down to such detail in a Use Case...

You might be right!  At least the folks doing agile development [1] would
agree with that.  "How much is enough design" is a deep software engineering
question - with no right answers.

Jim


[1] - http://www.xprogramming.com/

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