I like the idea of a use case work item. That would be a nice touch and linking from the use case in the model to work items is already there, unfortunately there isn't an automatic link back to the diagram from the work item. The only thing I could think of would be to add a link from the work item to a versioned item but that's not particularly clean.
I think that Team Arch will be a tough sell against a product like Enterprise Architect especially given how much market traction EA has. MS will have to add focus on the architect explorer in addition to the UML side of the story to help round out the offering. Larry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luis Esteban Valencia Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Use Cases, If you go to enterprise architect from sparx systems, it has the option to define basic flows and exceptional flows. A use case diagram at all without all that info is very much useless, at least thats the way I have worked in the last 9 years, in the last 3 companies, all of them use use cases to define flows. I am thinking very seriusly to implement a use case work item with all that info, it would be better than the diagram, and maybe the diagram can be linked to the work item However its very strange, because in a screenshot somewhere I saw that the architecture explorer would allow preconditions, postconditions, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case Thanks From: Guger, Larry<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:28 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Use Cases, I'm assuming you are talking about the use case diagram with TeamArch. The diagram doesn't support that. You would need to add that information into a textual version of the use case. My suggestion would be to create a text format of the use case (ala Alistair Cockburn) and add an artifact element to the diagram that links to the document. Use cases usually don't indicate flow, I would suggest going to an activity or sequence diagram for that. Larry From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luis Esteban Valencia Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2009 7:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Use Cases, How can I put preconditions, postconditions, basic flow, etc to an use case? I cant find how Thanks ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subscribe: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/oztfs Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subscribe: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/oztfs Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subscribe: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/oztfs Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/oztfs Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
