Writing Use-Case with a Minimal Set of Words

Use-case analysis is a very practical method of defining software usage from the actor´s viewpoint. Many developers apply use-case analysis, but they do so for functional decomposition and thereby lose many of the merits of use-case analysis, such as easier explanation by actors and correct understanding and recording of software requirements by software developers. In order to facilitate use-case analysis from an actor´s viewpoint, we developed a language called Minimal Language (ML), as a subset of a natural language, for use-case descriptions. ML is a specialized natural language for describing software usage. Based on real project experiences, it was created carefully to be rich enough for describing use cases from an actor´s viewpoint and simple enough to have only one interpretation for developers. As a result of such specialization, ML consists of a minimal set of words. The sparseness of words in ML eases ML training for developers