Guidelines - creating use cases for embedded systems

In the automotive domain, the increasing complexity of software demands a requirements process that is tailored to the needs of the stakeholders involved in the development process. UCs and Statecharts are commonly used as specification techniques in many projects. In this report we present guidelines to derive UCs for embedded systems in a systematic, repeatable und verifiable way. We illustrate them with a case study for developing an electronic control unit for a car. These guidelines have been collected from literature and from several case studies. In the second part of the report we describe in detail an evaluation of these guidelines in the context of a Praktikum at the University of Kaiserslautern in summer term 2003.