Use Case Actors - Primary versus Secondary
- by Dave Burke
The Unified Modeling Language (UML1) defines an Actor (from
UseCases) as:
An actor specifies a role played
by a user or any other system that interacts with the subject.
In Alistair Cockburn’s book “Writing Effective Use Cases” (2) Actors
are further defined as follows:
Primary Actor: The primary actor of a use case is the stakeholder that…
