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A use case is a tool for identifying the business goals of a system. The identification of use cases helps define system scope, ensuring that the requirements to be found will all be aligned with the business values, needs and strategy.

A sequence diagram is an interaction diagram that emphasizes the time-ordering of messages. It depicts the objects and classes involved in the scenario and the sequence of messages exchanged between the objects needed to carry out the functionality of the scenario. Typically, you’ll use one sequence diagram to specify a use case’s main flow, and variations of that diagram to specify a use case’s exceptional flows.