[HN Gopher] Use Cases: The purpose of your code ___________________________________________________________________ Use Cases: The purpose of your code Author : CodeItWrong Score : 17 points Date : 2021-11-22 10:20 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (joebew42.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (joebew42.github.io) | chrysoprace wrote: | I always wonder who the audience is for these things, as I assume | that most people in some kind of software engineering principle | will have gone to university, but I suppose this is a good read | for anyone who went the bootcamp route. Use cases are very | important and it oftens stumps product owners when I ask them | about use cases because they haven't really thought out what | clients are asking for and how it relates to users. Many "super | urgent" feature requests can be reprioritised when the product | owner understands how it actually relates to the system. | giantDinosaur wrote: | Use cases tend to fall apart as relevant to guiding developers | once the domain model necessarily diverges from the | implementation, which is very common. I don't see how they're | more useful than general user stories: if someone hasn't | thought about what the users actually want, and why they need | to achieve something, that's not a software problem. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-23 23:01 UTC)