My Use Case Diagrams

Getting right down to it, use case diagrams are used to visually demonstrate how a system is (supposed) to work. While there may be some ideas that will change over the course of a project development, the core idea will usually stay intact. Incredibly useful when trying to explain the functionality of systems to non-programmers without having to delve into the guts of coding and technical terminology.

Use Case 1 - Post Listing

This diagram is used to describe the scenario in which the client (website user) wishes to create a new listing on the Synclis website.

• Log in: User enters relevant credentials
• Create new listing: This is the process in which the user collects information regarding the listing. This can range from pictures, product quality, etc. An expiration date is set and a price is listed if relevant.
• The listing is posted onto the website. Afterwards, the author should have the option to edit the listing

Use case 2 - View/accept listing

This diagram is used to describe the event where a user wanted to look up the various available listings and accept them.

• User logs in with relevant credentials
• Selects a category they wish to browse. Alternatively, they can try searching for what they want to see using the search engine
• After getting a list of listings, the user can browse them at his or her leisure. The presentation of the listings is still (as far as I know) undecided
• Selecting on a listing yields additional information on said listing
• Accepting will notify the author of the listing and allow the two users to communicate

Use case 3 - Pulling information from social media website using JSON

This diagram is used to illustrate how information from other websites can be pulled onto Synclis. I’m using YouTube as an example

• Video is created on host website, YouTube, by users
• Synclis and YouTube communicate over the network via HTTP callbacks
• after getting okay, Synclis converts relevant information using JSON
• Information contained in JSON will then be used to post the listings. The listings will subsequently be categorized and display the author and video information