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Product type Book

Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801816489

Pages 460 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Software Architecture

Author (1):

Davi Vieira

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Architecture Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Why Hexagonal Architecture?

3. Chapter 2: Wrapping Business Rules inside Domain Hexagon

4. Chapter 3: Handling Behavior with Ports and Use Cases

5. Chapter 4: Creating Adapters to Interact with the Outside World

6. Chapter 5: Exploring the Nature of Driving and Driven Operations

7. Section 2: Using Hexagons to Create a Solid Foundation

8. Chapter 6: Building the Domain Hexagon

9. Chapter 7: Building the Application Hexagon

10. Chapter 8: Building the Framework Hexagon

11. Chapter 9: Applying Dependency Inversion with Java Modules

12. Section 3: Becoming Cloud-Native

13. Chapter 10: Adding Quarkus to a Modularized Hexagonal Application

14. Chapter 11: Leveraging CDI Beans to Manage Ports and Use Cases

15. Chapter 12: Using RESTEasy Reactive to Implement Input Adapters

16. Chapter 13: Persisting Data with Output Adapters and Hibernate Reactive

17. Chapter 14: Setting Up Dockerfile and Kubernetes Objects for Cloud Deployment

18. Chapter 15: Good Design Practices for Your Hexagonal Application

19. Assessments

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Defining use cases

The topology and inventory system allows users to manage network resources such as routers, switches, and networks. To enable this management, we have created a domain model in the previous chapter that represents the relationship between those resources. What we have to do now is construct the system's features in terms of the domain model. These features represent user intent when interacting with the system.

To make it possible to express use cases in both written and code form, we use Cucumber, a valuable tool to enable non-technical people to grasp the use cases that exist in the code.

By relying on Cucumber concepts such as features and scenarios, we can create use case descriptions that are easy to follow. The use case descriptions that are shaped using Cucumber can serve as references for developing use case interfaces.

Before creating the use case interfaces for the topology and inventory system, we first need to structure the use cases in...