A Study on the Influence of Construction Systematization of Use-Case Models in Counting the Use-Case Points

• Anderson Belgamo UFSCar
• Sandra Fabbri UFSCar

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2004.16193

Abstract

This paper presents a study on the influence in Use Case Points derived from models constructed with a more systematic and standardized process. This systematization on Use Case Model construction is reached by applying the reading techniques named GUCCRA – Guidelines for Use Case Construction and Requirements document Analysis. This study was realized based on use case models constructed during an experiment aiming at evaluating the reading techniques in relation to the Ad-Hoc approach. The analysis carried out with the Use Cases Points computed for the models constructed with the reading techniques showed that these values are nearest to the correspondent value of the Oracle Model than the ones derived from the Ad-Hoc approach. Therefore, the elaboration of use cases that are more standardized and less dependent of the designer subjectivity, as it was showed by the experiment results, can improve the quality of the Use Case Points associated with those models.

Keywords: use case points, use case models construction, reading techniques

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