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From: jeffrey.parsons on 4 Oct 2007 21:11
We would really like to hear your views about Use Cases and what you
are doing with them. We have recently created a web survey and we
would love to get your responses and ideas, no matter what you think!
The survey can be found at:

https://www.uleth.ca/survey/uml/

The survey is hosted by the University of Lethbridge in Alberta
Canada. We are Brian Dobing, from the University of Lethbridge, and
Jeff Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland. We are primarily
researchers and teachers, not UML consultants or book writers. We
have no preconceived notions of what distinguishes good vs bad Use
Cases, when and how they should be used, etc. But we are very
interested in your views. Some of our work was published in the
Communications of the ACM and is available free online via ACM Queue
at:

http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=461

We have recently completed a longer article based on this research and
should be able to provide it to anyone interested in a few months.
(It isn't published yet.) You can request a copy if you complete the
survey - but actually we will provide it free to anyone so please
don't enter a lot of garbage data just to get the paper. Just send us
an email (there are email links on the first page of the survey).

We really welcome all opinions - including those that say we're asking
the wrong questions etc. Our goal is to help the UML and Use Case
community better understand what it going on. To that end, the OMG is
supporting our research and has provided a link to our survey on their
web pages (omg.org and uml.org).

We look forward to hearing from you and providing you with some
interesting feedback in return. Once again, the link is:

https://www.uleth.ca/survey/uml/


Thanks for your time

Brian Dobing and Jeff Parsons

From: H. S. Lahman on 5 Oct 2007 11:54
Responding to Jeffrey.parsons...

> We would really like to hear your views about Use Cases and what you
> are doing with them. We have recently created a web survey and we
> would love to get your responses and ideas, no matter what you think!
> The survey can be found at:
>
> https://www.uleth.ca/survey/uml/

Your survey has a bit of a problem if one has not worked in IT in the
past five years (I retired in '00); one gets shunted to the end,
regardless of how much IT experience one has had lifetime.

FWIW, I don't think IT employs use cases in any unique fashion anyway.
I've spent at least a decade each doing IT, R-T/E, and scientific
development and I don't see any reason to believe one would migrate from
use case requirements to OOA/D/P any differently among them.


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