This article is from the Object-Oriented Technology FAQ, by Bob Hathaway rjh@geodesic.com with numerous contributions by others.
From Ed Berard
A 15-page article titled "Be Careful With 'Use Cases'" presents a
brief introduction to use cases, and discusses the problems that some
software engineers, and some software engineering organizations, have
in making effective use of use cases. It does include a bibliography.
The article is available in several different formats, and via several different mechanisms:
If you have access to the World Wide Web:
Surf to http://www.toa.com/ and select the "On-Line
Documents" button.
The article is available in plain text, html (hypertext
markup language), and pdf
(Adobe's portable document format). Select the appropriate
web page and obtain
the article.
You can also go directly to the appropriate web page by
linking to one of the
following:
http://www.toa.com/pub/html/use_case.html (for the html version)
http://www.toa.com/pub/Acrobat/use_case.pdf (for the pdf version)
http://www.toa.com/pub/use_case.txt (for the text only version)
If you have ftp access:
Via anonymous ftp, connect to ftp://ftp.toa.com/pub
 
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