As to competency questions, this might help more than a definition, since there is no agreed upon one: http://marinemetadata.org/references/competencyquestionsoverview Maybe there is something better since this was written. As to use cases, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case is fair enough, but probably more than you want to know. http://www.cragsystems.co.uk/SFRWUC/ is a pretty good tutorial for use case modeling with UML, and in about 4-5 clicks will get you to both definition and examples. You probably don't need to go further than that, especially because the further in you get, the more nit-picky is this particular tutorial. On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Steve Baskauf <steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
For the benefit of the uninitiated (that would be me and possibly others), could someone please post definitions of "competency question" and "use case" along with a couple of examples of each?
Steve
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