Use cases have never been this easy to understand -- or this easy to create! In Writing Effective Use Cases, Alistair Cockburn offers a hands-on, soup-to-nuts guide to use case development, based on the proven concepts he has refined through years of research, development, and seminar presentations. Cockburn begins by answering the most basic questions facing anyone interested in use cases: "What does a use case look like? When do I write one?" Next, he introduces each key element of use cases: actors, stakeholders, design scope, goal levels, scenarios, and more. Writing Effective Use Cases contains detailed guidelines, formats, and project standards for creating use cases -- as well as a detailed chapter on style, containing specific do's and don'ts. Cockburn shows how use cases fit together with requirements gathering, business processing reengineering, and other key issues facing software professionals. The book includes practice exercises with solutions, as well as a detailed appendix on how to use these techniques with UML. For all application developers, object technology practitioners, software system designers, architects, and analysts.

Alistair Cockburn是用例方麵的一位著名專傢。他是Humans and Technology公司的資深顧問，在那裏他負責幫助客戶在麵嚮對象項目上獲得成功。他具有20多年的項目管理經驗，曾在許多保險、零售和電子商務公司以及一些大型企業（例如挪威中央銀行和IBM公司）主持軟、硬件開發項目。

王雷，男，1969年生，博士。北京航空航天大學計算機科學與工程係副教授，從事軟件工程、過程工程和係統軟件等方麵的研究工作。曾獲部級科技進步二等奬、三等奬各一項。

張莉，女，1968年生，博士。北京航空航天大學計算機科學與工程係教授，軟件工程研究所副所長。主要從事軟件工程、過程工程、企業/軟件建模等的研究。1996年博士學位論文被評為北京計算機學會第三屆博士優秀學位論文，1998～2000年任863/CIMS石化行業專傢組成員，2001年入選北京市科技新星計劃，2001年獲得“中創軟件人纔奬”，成為該年度全國獲此殊榮的三人之一。