Comments on: Quick Tip to Help Identify Use Case Actors http://practicalanalyst.com/2008/05/21/quick-tip-to-help-identify-use-case-actors/ Practical Insight for Business Analysts and Project Professionals Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:24:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joy Beatty http://practicalanalyst.com/2008/05/21/quick-tip-to-help-identify-use-case-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-791 Joy Beatty Fri, 23 May 2008 20:42:58 +0000 http://jonathanbabcock.com/?p=219#comment-791 Interesting look at identifying actors. I've not given it any thought in application though to see if it works. There are some other ideas on identifying these here: http://requirements.seilevel.com/blog/2006/03/people-systems-and-data-analysis.html For example, people actors definitely fall out of things like org charts (http://requirements.seilevel.com/blog/2007/03/requirements-model-org-chart.html). System actors are certainly identifiable by looking at interfaces. But another way to identify these is to look at data flowing in and out of the system, and the systems those pieces of data come from are probably non-user actors. Thanks for the post! Interesting look at identifying actors. I’ve not given it any thought in application though to see if it works.

There are some other ideas on identifying these here: http://requirements.seilevel.com/blog/2006/03/people-systems-and-data-analysis.html

For example, people actors definitely fall out of things like org charts (http://requirements.seilevel.com/blog/2007/03/requirements-model-org-chart.html). System actors are certainly identifiable by looking at interfaces. But another way to identify these is to look at data flowing in and out of the system, and the systems those pieces of data come from are probably non-user actors.

Thanks for the post!

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