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As a programmer, what level of detail and what information do you expect to see in the "Use Case"?

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I would expect to see the kind of information that is outlined in the Wikipedia article. What can we tell you here that isn't already adequately covered there? – Robert Harvey Oct 10 '12 at 15:45
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As described in the article you would basically expect a Finite State Machine or something that can be converted to a Finite State Machine. Meaning finite number of steps that bring the system to a specific state. This however does not need to be the FSM of the entire system it can and in most cases is just a subset.

Suppose the user story is the following:

As an administrator, I need user management panel, so that I can maintain users from there.

One of the user stories would be:

As an administrator I want to be able to delete a user.

The developer reads it as:

if I am the administrator -> I find the user -> I press delete -> the user is deleted

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What? Did you post this in the right place? – Robert Harvey Oct 10 '12 at 15:52
@RobertHarvey I believe I did, the user is asking what a developer would expect and I am answering exactly what a developer would expect. – Konstantin D - Infragistics Oct 10 '12 at 15:54
What does a Finite State Machine have to do with Use Cases in Agile development? – Robert Harvey Oct 10 '12 at 15:55
@RobertHarvey Take a look at my edited answer. – Konstantin D - Infragistics Oct 10 '12 at 16:02
Oh. . . . . . . – Robert Harvey Oct 10 '12 at 16:03

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