Monthly Archives: December 2010

The Baker’s Dozen of Use Cases

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

RULE 8: Don’t describe the user interface

For many users the user interface is the system.  Prototypes and mock-ups of the man-machine interface (MMI) are a fantastic way of eliciting requirements and use case behaviours from your stakeholders.  And when defining use case descriptions adding MMI ‘screenshots’ and images can help illuminate the behaviour of the system to your customers.

 

It is very tempting to describe use case transactions in terms of MMI elements, in an attempt to make them more understandable […]

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C-201x

Director at Feabhas Limited
Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
Niall Cooling

The last few years have been dominated by the development of the new C++ standard (still generally referred too as C++0x  but now expected in 2011). This will be the second edition of the C++ standard (ISO/IEC 14882) ignoring any TC’s and alike (useful C++0x FAQ here).

However, in parallel and generally under the radar, there has recently been publish a committee draft for the third edition of the C standard (ISO/IEC 9899). This should not really be a surprise, as […]

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