On a recent project we found it useful to capture the business rules separately (I like the idea of attaching them to the Business Object Model - as per Les) one reason for this is that sometimes many use cases could refer to one business rule or you end up cluttering up the use cases with many business rules and they detract form the essence of the Use Case.
However we found it was good to uniquely name them and link the name references to the actual business rules. Regards ____________________________________________ Charles Edwards www.elearningwave.com - elearning site www.processwave.net - Information Portal | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | On Behalf Of Baynes, Steve | Sent: 14 August 2002 10:15 | To: Les Munday; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' | Subject: RE: (ROSE) UML and Business Rules | | | All, The need for business rules must be captured in the use cases. Use | cases are the requirements documents. The implementation of the business | rules will flow throughout the rest of the analysis, design, | implementation | and testing. | | Business rules may be driven by object state transition, the | inter-relationship between objects etc. This means no single artefact, | other than use cases, can capture the need for these rules. | | This is all "in my opinion". I look forward to some different views... | | Regards | Stephen Baynes | | -----Original Message----- | From: Les Munday [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 13 August 2002 22:24 | To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' | Subject: Re: (ROSE) UML and Business Rules | | | | Since I think of business rules as generally applying to | attributes and relationships between attributs, and since we | don't reference attributes within use cases, I would not | recommend stating business rules in use cases. | | I also think of business rules as being flexible, much more so | than I want my use cases to be. | | So my expectation would be to see business rules described by a | business object model. I think that they attach quite nicely to | the attributes and relationships in the class diagram. | | Much better place than use cases, IMO. | | Les. | | > | > UML and Business Rules - are these two things complementary? | > Some people believe that when you use UML/Use Cases you don't | need | > business rules techniques to capture business policies, | regulations, | > restrictions, etc. | > - since it got captured in use cases anyway. | > Other people think that UML is not sufficient for these | purposes. | > | > What is your approach to this? | > | > Thank you. | > | > David Lyalin | > | **************************************************************** | ******** | > * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. | > * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support | > * | > * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > * Archive of messages: | > * | http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp | > * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > * | > * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email | > * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > * Subject: <BLANK> | > * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum | > | **************************************************************** | ********* | > | > | > | | | ________________________________________________ | Get your own "800" number | Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more | http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag | ************************************************************************ | * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. | * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support | * | * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * Archive of messages: | * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp | * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * | * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email | * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * Subject: <BLANK> | * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum | ************************************************************************ * | ************************************************************************ | * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. | * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support | * | * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * Archive of messages: | * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp | * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * | * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email | * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | * Subject: <BLANK> | * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum | ************************************************************************ * ************************************************************************ * Rose Forum is a public venue for ideas and discussions. * For technical support, visit http://www.rational.com/support * * Post or Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subscription Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Archive of messages: * http://www.rational.com/support/usergroups/rose/rose_forum.jsp * Other Requests: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To unsubscribe from the list, please send email * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Subject: <BLANK> * Body: unsubscribe rose_forum *************************************************************************
