Executable Use Cases: a Supplement to Model-Driven Development?

Executable Use Cases (EUCs) is a model-based approach to requirements engineering. In the introduction to this paper, we briefly discuss how EUCs may be used as a supplement to Model-Driven Development (MDD). Then we present the EUC approach in more detail. An EUC can describe and link user-level requirements and more technical software specifications. In MDD, user-level requirements are not always explicitly described; it is sufficient for MDD that a specification, or platform-independent model, of the software that we are going to develop is provided. Therefore, a combination of EUCs and MDD may have potential to cover the full software engineering path from user-level requirements via specifications to implementations of running computer systems.