UML Activity Diagrams: Versatile Roadmaps for Understanding System Behavior
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The core purpose of software development is to provide solutions to customers' real problems. Use cases1 are a vital aspect of a technique that has been used successfully to ensure that development projects actually focus on these problems. They are used to discover, capture, and present customer requirements in a form that is accessible to developers, testers, and other stakeholders in a development project. To detail a use case, it is critical to capture basic, alternate, and exceptional flows of execution, which represent major and minor threads of execution the system encounters as it processes customer requests.
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