Fully Dressed Use Case Example A use case is a term used in systems engineering to describe a list of steps. Use cases define interactions between a role known in unified modeling language (or UML) as an actor and a system to achieve a goal. Fully dressed use cases show more detail of this process. Here's an example: 1) A customer arrives at a checkout counter to purchase goods 2) The cashier .
(the primary actor) enters each item's identifier 3) The system records the sale line item and sets the price 4) The system presents the total 5) The cashier tells the customer the total 6) The system logs the completed sale and the sends the completed sale information to the external accounting system 7) The system produces a receipt 8) The customer leaves with their goods and receipt More Reference Links: http://www.usability.gov/methods/usecases.html http://alistair.cockburn.us/Basic+use+case+template