use case

See also: use-case

English

Alternative forms

• use-case

Etymology

use + case

Noun

use case (plural use cases)

1. (software engineering) A potential scenario in which a system receives an external request (such as user input) and responds to it.
2. (software engineering) A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.
   • 2019 December 15, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     So Amazon unveiled more software services to make A.W.S. indispensable. In a speech at the event, Andy Jassy, the head of A.W.S., said it wanted to “enable every imaginable use case.”

   • 2020 November 24, Yiren Lu, “Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Shopify fulfills what’s known in the software development community as the “80 percent use case,” which means it provides 80 percent of the features that merchants need and third-party developers supply the rest […]

3. (engineering, generally) A usage scenario for a product, such as a piece of equipment or a tool.

Translations

system scenario

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用例 (zh) (yònglì), 使用案例 (shǐyòng ànlì), 用況／用况 (yòngkuàng)

• Czech: případ použití m
• Finnish: käyttötapaus (fi)
• French: cas d’utilisation (fr) m
• German: Anwendungsfall (de) m
• Hebrew: תרחיש שימוש \ תַּרְחִישׁ שִׁמּוּשׁ m (tarḥish shimush)
• Hungarian: használati eset
• Italian: caso d'uso m
• Japanese: ユースケース (yūsukēsu)
• Russian: сцена́рий испо́льзования m (scenárij ispólʹzovanija), вариа́нт испо́льзования m (variánt ispólʹzovanija), прецеде́нт (ru) m (precedént) (i.e. "precedent", also used in UML terminology)
• Swedish: användningsfall n
• Turkish: kullanım senaryosu
• Vietnamese: trường hợp sử dụng, ca sử dụng

Anagrams

• causees