Meaning of use case | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A potential scenario in which a system receives an external request (such as user input) and responds to it.
2. A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.
3. A usage scenario for a product, such as a piece of equipment or a tool.

Examples

“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.””

“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[…]”

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