Use case

A use case in software engineering and systems engineering is a description of a system’s behaviour as it responds to a request that originates from outside of that system. The use case technique is used to capture a system's behavioral requirements by detailing scenario-driven threads through the functional requirements.

在软件工程中，用例，或译使用案例(Use Case)是一种在开发新系统或者软件改造时捕获潜在需求的技术。每个用例提供了一个或多个场景，该场景揭示了系统是如何同最终用户或其它系统交互(interact)的，从而获得一个明确的业务目标。用例要避免技术术语，取而代之的是最终用户或者领域专家的语言。用例一般是由软件开发者和最终用户共同创作的。