RUP describes a process for developing software systems. It seems there are so many variations of RUP, how do you know which is best for you and your organization, if any? What do all those acronyms mean? Where are these things coming from?
Author: Geri Schneider Winters
Some of you may be working on systems with many complex relationships between the parts. These complex systems may be described as a system of systems, or may be described as a product line, or perhaps both at once.
In these cases, you will often find that the requirements of a large, overall system are shared among a number of related projects, each of which implements some well-defined part of the overall system.
Geri Schneider Winters writes about whether or not you could write alternatives to alternatives in use cases.
There is no actual standard for the formatting of a use case specification, just guidelines and best practices. Therefore, if using alternatives to alternatives in use cases makes the use case more clear - use it, by any means.
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