List the primary actors of the use case.

Primary actors use the system to create one of the purposed goals.

List the secondary actors of the use case.

Typical secondary actors are developers and administrators that support the system by maintaining or monitoring.

List the supporting actors of the use case.

Supporting actors of a system are only used by the system, but are not using the system (e.g. printers).

Define the level of abstraction of the use case.

Consider using the Use Case Level Macro.

Define the expected frequency of use.

Dependent on the product this may be numbers like uses per visit/task of one user or uses per hour/day/week/month (of one/all user(s)). It is not important to compare two use cases by their frequency, it is important for the developer to get to know how often the function will be used by users of the system.

Specify the level of this use case in the containment hierarchy.

Consider to use the Level Macro to calculate this information based on the location of this document within the hierachy of use case documents.