A mainstay of conventional requirements gathering, use cases can ease the transition to agile methodologies. In this practical program, we explore: * how to write uses cases * how to adapt uses cases to agile projects * how to automate acceptance testing with use cases Ted Husted is a member of the International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA), and the Executive Vice President Elect of the Rochester NY Chapter. Ted has published three books and several magazine articles on software development and testing, and he speaks at professional conferences and conventions on a regular basis. Ted Husted works in Pittsford NY with VanDamme Associates, a .NET integrator specializing in non-profits and associations.

1. Agile Analysis with Use Cases: Balancing Utility with Simplicity May Program Guest Speaker: Ted Husted May 7, 2009 ROCHESTER, NY Chapter

6. Agile Analysis with Use Cases Balancing Simplicity with Utility Presented by Ted Husted VanDamme Associates, Inc. twitter.com/TedHusted

7. How is Pong like a Use Case?

23. What about diagrams?

24. How is a user story different?

29. What can go wrong with this story?

31. What’s our agenda?

32. Do you take questions? Slides Available at slideshare.net / rochesterny.theiiba.org

34. Why? Actors Interact

35. Why? Change Happens

36. Why? Systems Adapt

37. What? Main Scenario

39. What? Extensions

40. What? Annotations

41. What? Annotations

46. Where? Can use cases do it all?

49. When? Requirements Analysis

50. When? Organize and Allocate

51. Who? You …

52. Who? Them …

53. Who? Us!

63. Adapt?

64. Adapt? Agile

69. Adapt? Training Materials

70. Adapt? Quality Assurance

76. Automate?

77. Automate? Testing

78. Automate? Testing

79. Adapt? Testing http:// seleniumhq.org /

80. Resources http://www.rose-hulman.edu/class/csse/csse371/csse371-2007-2008/Lectures/usecases.ppt

81. Any questions? Slides Available at slideshare.net / rochesterny.theiiba.org