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Selected books of the Jolt Award

Write valid use cases

ISBN 978-7-121-16672-3

Alistair Cockburn (Alistair. Cockburn) by

Wang Lei and Zhang Li translated

Published May 2012

Price: 69.00 yuan

16 karat

340 pages

Slogan: only after a technical product has won the Jolt award can it really become the mainstream of the industry, and a technical book can really establish its classic status only after it has won the Jolt award.

Internal content brief introduction

The Jolt Award is known as the "Oscar of the Software Industry". This series of books are selected from previous award-winning books of Jolt, focusing on unique engineering ideas and outstanding methodologies rooted in development practice. Alistair Cockburn, the author of this book, extends the typical use case handling method by virtue of his rich experience in the object-oriented field and referring to the suggestions of other experts, and provides a "basic, specific and practical" guide for software developers to write use cases. This book fully describes the initial, medium and high-level concepts of use cases, and provides a large number of positive and negative examples of use case writing. It is a professional book with clear concept, complete structure and rich content.

This book won the Jolt World Book Award in 2001 and is suitable for software work, researchers and use case writers at different levels of knowledge.

A constant reverberation

Nowadays, scholars no longer have the pain of whether they have books to read or not, but sometimes they are confused by a wide variety of books, and even the highly professional field of technical books is increasingly caught in a confusing situation. At this time, if you want to find an authoritative book review, or a credible ranking, you can look for it according to clues, which greatly increases the hit rate of selected good books. However, such good help is rare, and there is only one outstanding branch at home and abroad-the Jolt Award, which is known as the "software industry Oscar"!

Who is the one who shocked the world?

Today, when computing equipment has become a necessary tool for enterprise production and daily life, professional and public users have increasing requirements for the function, performance and user experience of the software. In this context, how to give full play to the highest efficiency and maximum effectiveness of software development has been a major issue in front of every practitioner, and this is the original intention of the Jolt Award and the purpose of several years.

The Jolt Award, which lasted for more than 20 years, is well-known and widely respected in the book and software industry. As its name, in order to lead the mainstream of computer science and engineering, Jolt insists on awarding annual awards only to books, tools, products and ideas that have shocked the entire IT industry. It is famous for its first-class vision and high professionalism.

In addition to books, Jolt has many award categories for software products, such as configuration management, collaboration tools, database engine / database tools, design tools / modeling, development environment, enterprise tools, libraries / frameworks, mobile development tools, etc. But books have always been the most eye-catching and widely spread award branch of the Jolt Awards. Jolt used to have general category books, technical books and other categories, each category also has "Jolt Award" (usually one) and "productivity award" (Productivity Award, usually 2 or 3). As soon as the award-winning technical books are published, they are marked with a classic brand, which can be described as a "shock to the world" (the slogan of sponsor Jolt Coke).

As lovers of computer technology books, we are always asking-who is shaking the world and who is illuminating tomorrow? The Jolt award is like a window in front of us, so that we can watch the trend dance closely and listen to the shock and roar!

Why are the morning flowers picked up in the evening?

Jolt is like an annual promise to sharpen a batch of masterpieces that can withstand the erosion of time for us in the vast sea of books. as a result, the masterpieces with laurels have been introduced into China one after another, broadening our horizons and nourishing our technology. However, due to many reasons, such as the untimely birth caused by the technological gap, the unsatisfactory translation and production, or the neglect of publicity, these classics are published in China, although there is no shortage of fans who have won the treasure. but it is still not known to many people, thus passing by a large number of readers who should have benefited from it. Since the regret of this life mistake should not have happened, it should not be continued. To this end, we invite foreign publishing counterparts and domestic technical experts to embark on the road of picking up flowers in the evening, and try our best to screen out the long-lasting and shocking quality works of Jolt books for the broad masses of readers.

Jolt award-winning books are unanimously evaluated by industry experts, and highly recognized by software practitioners, although reading these books today, we can no longer see the ever-changing theoretical breakthroughs of the epic era in the last century, and rely on the systematic achievements of profound and complicated scientific research, but more engineering ideas and methodologies summarized and refined in day-to-day development practice. The reason for the abandonment of re-selection can be seen from the award rules of Jolt for many years.

See you in ten thousand hours.

All books that have made revolutionary and subversive breakthroughs in the field of engineering thought are classified as "shock". For example, the transition from a process-based programming model to an object-oriented model is a huge revolution in the thinking of software development; for example, breaking the traditional waterfall model to a continuous integrated software delivery model is also a major ideological change in the industry. Major ideological breakthroughs like this can be said to happen once in years or even decades, while the more common books that have won Jolt awards are "productivity" winners based on best practices. The books that have won such honors are summed up by the authors' painstaking efforts and experiences from ordinary, repetitive, and even inconspicuous daily development practices with unique discernment, extraordinary patience, and bold innovation.

These books cover topics that the average software developer faces every day-- code reading, writing test cases, fixing software problems. But such seemingly mundane work, whether every day, every project can be done well, really opened the gap in the quality of software developers, but also determines the quality of products and services developed by software enterprises. There is an old saying in China that practice makes perfect. A famous entrepreneur also said a famous saying: "it is not easy to do simple things well millions of times." These simple and practical truths are also the so-called programmer spirit that can be best demonstrated in this series. It is based on down-to-earth practice and is full of yearning for freedom and innovation.

A masterpiece is comparable to a famous song.

In terms of not fading with the passage of time, only those classics that have been resounding for a century and shocked both ancient and modern times are comparable to these Jolt masterpieces. I hope that every work that this series of books brings to you, like listening to the music that I never get tired of, will cover up the sound around the beam for a long time, and I really know it with heart. If you think about it, isn't software development similar to classical music? It is not only the inquiry of precise science of human mind, but also the pursuit of aesthetic enjoyment. Engineering is the foundation of art, and art is the ultimate of engineering. I sincerely hope that readers can carefully read the treasures of this series of books and use them in their daily work, so as to compose more and more shocking movements for China's software industry while fully enjoying the charm of masters.

The Viewpoint of blog posts of Electronic Industry Press

Spring 2012

Translator's preface

How to accurately describe user requirements has always been a hot topic in the field of software development. Ivar Jacobson first put forward the concept of "use case", which is widely used in describing system behavior requirements, software systems or business processes. But what should the use case describe? To what extent is it described? These questions are very difficult to answer. The book Writing effective use cases answers these questions well and is well received by readers. Thank you very much to Zhang Chunyu and Fu Longmei editors of Electronic Industry Publishing House for choosing to republish this book.

This book won the "Jolt and Productivity Award" of the American Journal of Software Development in 2001. this award awards the most outstanding technologies and books in the global software industry this year, which are divided into six categories, one of which is books. In 2001, only four books in the world won "Jolt and Productivity Award", the best books won "Jolt Award", and the other three books shared "Productivity Award". What this book gets is "Productivity Award" in 2001.

Through a large number of use cases from actual projects, this book summarizes some guiding principles in use case writing and training, and completely introduces the basic concepts of use cases. An important feature of this book is that it puts forward a model of project stakeholders and interests, and provides a large number of positive and negative examples. This book is divided into four parts: "introduction", "use case body", "frequently discussed topics" and "Tips for busy use case writers".

The "introduction" introduces the important concepts related to the use case, including the definition of the use case, the three most basic concepts in the use case, the basic components of the use case, and the different use case writing styles of different project groups.

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