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Alistair.cockburn.us | A User Story Is The Title Of One Scenario Whereas A Use Case Is The Contents Of Multiple Scenarios
User stories versus use cases
A user story is the title of one scenario, whereas a use case is the contents of multiple scenarios.
Alistair.cockburn.us | Stop Confusing Use Cases And User Stories
Similar to class and instance
Similar to class and instance. Use case is a template of an event and user story is an occurrence.
Doi Handbook - Numbering
DOI names are case insensitive
DOI names are case insensitive, using ASCII case folding for comparison of text. (Case insensitivity for DOI names applies only to ASCII characters. DOI names which differ in the case of non-ASCII Unicode characters may be different identifiers.) 10.123/ABC is identical to…
Epigrams On Programming
Everything is a special case of something more general
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general - and often we know it too quickly.
From Encyclopedia To Ontology: Toward Dynamic Representation Of The Discipline Of Philosophy
Grab-bag categories
The most common problematic category names were those which seemed to be grab bag categories. A 'grab bag' category here is understood as one which groups together possibly heterogeneous elements which are 'leftovers' from more significant sibling decompositions [...] The…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
All pleasure is, in itself, neither good nor bad. Whence comes the conviction that one should not cause pain in others in order to feel pleasure oneself?
The Inoffensive in Badness.—Badness has not for its object the infliction of pain upon others but simply our own satisfaction as, for instance, in the case of thirst for vengeance or of nerve excitation. Every act of teasing shows what pleasure is caused by the display of our…
Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does right: that is, does what seems to him good (advantageous)
"Man Always Does Right."—We do not blame nature when she sends a thunder storm and makes us wet: why then do we term the man who inflicts injury immoral? Because in the latter case we assume a voluntary, ruling, free will, and in the former necessity. But this distinction is a…
Stonehenge Unveils Its £27m Makeover In Time For The Winter Solstice | Culture | The Observer
Winter solstice access at Stonehenge
"The winter solstice, which I prefer to the summer event, has always been less well attended – but that may not be the case this year, because of the visitor centre and with it falling at the weekend. It is the more significant ceremony because it coincides with our Christmas…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Association roles
Each topic that participates in an association plays a role in that association called the association role. In the case of the relationship “Puccini was born in Lucca”, expressed by the association between Puccini and Lucca, those roles might be “person” and “place”; for…
Xml And Semantic Transparency
Xml doesn't allow blind interoperability
[..] we must reckon with the cold fact that XML does not of itself enable blind interchange or information reuse. XML may help humans predict what information might lie "between the tags" in the case of , but XML can only help. For an XML processor, and and are all equally (and…