[HN Gopher] Use Cases: The purpose of your code
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       Use Cases: The purpose of your code
        
       Author : CodeItWrong
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-11-22 10:20 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | chrysoprace wrote:
       | I always wonder who the audience is for these things, as I assume
       | that most people in some kind of software engineering principle
       | will have gone to university, but I suppose this is a good read
       | for anyone who went the bootcamp route. Use cases are very
       | important and it oftens stumps product owners when I ask them
       | about use cases because they haven't really thought out what
       | clients are asking for and how it relates to users. Many "super
       | urgent" feature requests can be reprioritised when the product
       | owner understands how it actually relates to the system.
        
         | giantDinosaur wrote:
         | Use cases tend to fall apart as relevant to guiding developers
         | once the domain model necessarily diverges from the
         | implementation, which is very common. I don't see how they're
         | more useful than general user stories: if someone hasn't
         | thought about what the users actually want, and why they need
         | to achieve something, that's not a software problem.
        
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