What are the Use case statement and when they are needed and how they are implementedand? How it differ fron test case statement?

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Use Cases (UC) are constructed after a detailed study of SRS. It is constructed by the testing team at the development site. It involves development team, business analysts, subject experts (basically client company staff) and of-course testing team.

UC are more elaborative then functional and system specifications in SRS. UC are decreasing the conceptual gap between SRS and test cases for test engineers. UC provide a step by step procedure with required input and expected output.

UC have the following format:

UC can be used to write test cases. This technique is mostly followed in a test outsourcing companies. Here, the development company with few test engineers prepare UC and send them to the testing company based on which the test cases are written.

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hi,
Definition for Use case And Testcase?.

how to write test cases using Use cases Diagrams. Explain with example.

Excellent definition by sutnarcha