"When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see."
Baltasar Gracian
During initial system design it is important to have a robust and business-driven method of capturing and validating functional requirements from the perspective of different classes of users for a planned technical solution. A use case defines a future set of steps or actions that will likely be performed by the user or other stakeholder in the use of an anticipated application.