Templates for Misuse Case Description

Abstract

Use cases have proven helpful for eliciting, communicating and documenting requirements. But whereas functional requirements are well supported, use cases provide less support for working with extra-functional requirements, such as security requirements. With the advent of e-commerce applications, security and other extra-functional requirements are growing in importance. In an earlier paper, the authors have introduced the concept of misuse cases -- inverted use cases to denote functions that should not be possible to perform in a system. In this paper, security related misuse cases are elaborated in further detail through a discussion of templates for their textual description.