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Use Cases — Origin

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Use cases as a requirements discovery technique were first introduced in:

Extreme Programming (Beck, 1999)

The IEEE software engineering standards

The UML standard developed by OMG

The Objectory method (Jacobson et al., 1993)

Correct Answer

The Objectory method (Jacobson et al., 1993)

Explanation

Use cases are a requirements discovery technique that were first introduced in the Objectory method (Jacobson et al., 1993). They have now become a fundamental feature of the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Reference

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 9th edition

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