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05 Laboratory Exercise 1

The exercise objectives are to apply the event decomposition technique to identify use cases and draw use case diagrams. Students are instructed to read the case study carefully and provide clear answers to the requirements. The case study describes the glucose monitoring technology and Sandia Medical Devices' partnership with a health system. It identifies concerns from patient and physician interviews that must be addressed in requirements and design. The tasks are to identify actors, develop use cases using the user goal technique, draw a use case

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05 Laboratory Exercise 1

The exercise objectives are to apply the event decomposition technique to identify use cases and draw use case diagrams. Students are instructed to read the case study carefully and provide clear answers to the requirements. The case study describes the glucose monitoring technology and Sandia Medical Devices' partnership with a health system. It identifies concerns from patient and physician interviews that must be addressed in requirements and design. The tasks are to identify actors, develop use cases using the user goal technique, draw a use case

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IT2013

Laboratory Exercise
Identifying User Stories and Use Cases
Objectives:

At the end of the exercise, the students should be able to:

▪ Apply the event decomposition technique to identify use cases; and


▪ Draw case diagrams by actor and subsystems.

Instructions:

1. Read and understand the case study carefully.


2. Provide a clear and complete answer to every requirement in the case.

Sandia Medical Devices

Medical Monitoring technology has advanced significantly in the last decade. Monitoring that once required
a visit to a health-care facility can now be performed by devices located in a patient’s home or carried or
worn at all times. Examples include measures of glucose level (blood sugar), pulse, blood pressure, and
electrocardiogram (ECG). Measurements can be transmitted via telephone, Internet connection, and
wireless data transmission standards, such as Bluetooth. A particularly powerful technology combination is
a wearable device that records data periodically or continuously and transmits it via Bluetooth to a cell phone
app. The cellphone app can inform the patient of problems and automatically transmit data and alerts to a
central monitoring application (See Figure 1).

Figure 1. Data movement among devices and users

Health-care providers and patients incur significant costs when glucose levels are not maintained within
acceptable tolerances. Short-term episodes of very high or very low glucose often result in an expensive
visit to urgent care clinics or hospitals. In addition, patients with frequent but less severe episodes of high or
low glucose are more susceptible to such expensive, long term complications as vision, circulatory, and
kidney problems.

Sandi Medical Devices (SMD), an Albuquerque manufacturer of portable and wearable medical monitoring
devices, has developed a glucose monitor embedded in the wristband. The device is powered by body heat
and senses glucose levels from minute quantities of perspiration. SMD is developing the Real-Time Glucose
Monitoring (RTGM) device in partnership with New Mexico Health System (NMHS), a comprehensive health
delivery service with patients throughout New Mexico.

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SMD will develop the initial prototype software for smartphones with Bluetooth capability running the Google
Android operating system. If successful, NMHS and its patient will have free use of the software, and SMD
will resell the software to other health systems worldwide.

As the project began, interviews with patients and physicians about potential RTGM capabilities and
interaction modes identified several areas of concern that will need to be incorporated into the systems
requirements and design. The relevant patient concerns include:

▪ Viewing and interpreting data and trends.


Patients would want to view more than their current glucose level. They would like to see glucose
levels over various time periods, with a specific focus on time periods during which their glucose
was within outside of acceptable ranges. A graphical view of the data is preferred, although some
patients also want to be able to see actual numbers.

▪ Entering additional data


Some patients want to be able to enter text notes or voice messages to supplement glucose level
data. For example, patients who see a high glucose alert might record voice messages describing
how they feel or what they had recently eaten. Some patients thought that sharing such information
with their health-care providers might be valuable, but others only wanted such information for
themselves.

Physicians expressed these concerns:

▪ They do not want to be the “first line of response” to all alerts. They prefer that nurses or physician
assistants be charged with that role and that physicians be notified only when frontline personnel
determine that an emergency situation exists.
▪ They want to be able to monitor and view past patient data and trends in much the same way as
described for patients.
▪ They want all their actions to be logged and patient-specific responses to be stored as part of the
patient’s electronic medical record.

Perform the following tasks.

1. Identify all the actors who will use RTGM.


2. Using the actors you identified in question 1, develop a list of use cases based on the user goal
technique. Draw a use case diagram for these use cases.
3. Using the event decomposition technique for each event you identified in the description, name the
event, state the type of event, and name the resulting use case. Draw a use case diagram for these
use cases.

GRADING RUBRIC (100 points):


Criteria Performance Standards Points
Content The best applicable points are presented. 45
Adherence to The concepts and material issues covered are 35
Assignment addressed.
Logic of Arguments Points are logical and well supported by evidence. 20
TOTAL 100

REFERENCE:

Satzinger, J., Jackson, R., & Burd, S. (2015). Systems analysis and design in a changing world –
Course Technology. USA. Cengage Learning.

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