Notifications, Messages and Methods Meeting Minutes

EM TC

Notifications, Messages and Methods Subcommittee

May 6th, 2003

 

Attendees:

Art Botterell

Joyce Kern

Walid Ramadan

Nasseam Elkarra
Gary Ham

Eliot Christian

Rex Brooks

Cathy M Subatch

 

Meeting Notes:

 

CAP Requirements Documents

Art send out draft of CAP requirements document for comments.  Updated with Eliot's comments.  No other concerns or issues on document so motion was made to advance to the TC level.  Art will put on the TC website for comments and consideration of entire TC.

 

Use Cases

Next step is use cases - not sure how to document

Gary - use cases can go from detailed specs to simple set of steps that the user does. We should document existing user cases.

Art - current field cases probably not best use cases.  CAP has UML models but not use cases.  Three applications/general use cases:
  
Input side - such as data fusion application
  
Output side - push a button and warning devices are activated
  
Upstream - situational awareness

Eliot - Need to put human's judgement into the loops for input and output.

Gary  there are two types of use cases:
  
 Development Use Case is written with the purpose of how the   use interacts with system.  The developer should be able to match the   design to the requirements (traceability tool)
  
Business Use Case - broader/defines goals want to establish.  Written   around the architecture.

In summary:
  
Need use cases with input/output with human interaction and input/output   without human interaction.
  
Use cases should be short and terse - paragraph in length  
  
Use non-creative language (for same object use same language)
  
Use step-by-step description
  
Keep track of alternative flows
  
Should be directly traceable to requirements in requirements documents

Everyone in SC is encouraged to draft one use case and mail it to SC mailing list ()

Next Meeting

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