Use Case: Suggest Plants

Summary

• Scope: Plants Layer
• Level: User Goal
• Actors: App User
• Brief: The user gets plant suggestions that she would not have thought of herself.
• Assignee:

Scenarios

• Precondition:

  • The user has opened the app.
  • The plants layer is enabled.
  • Plant(s) or a position on the map are selected.

• Main success scenario:

  • A choice of plants that

    1. work well with already placed plants and
    2. fit the environmental conditions
    3. have a high ecological value

    are presented to the user. Further more, the plants should be grouped by:

    • available inventory with early expiration days first
    • favourites of users
    • and lastly which were recently planted

  • Within those suggestions the user can see what plants go well with each other.

  • The user can see why these plants have a high ecological value. e.g.:

    • Attracts wildlife
    • Attracts pollinating insects
    • Is a nitrogen fixer
    • Is a cover crop
    • Are less commonly planted
    • etc.

• Alternative scenario:

  • No plant(s) or position are selected.
  • Polyculture groups that fit the environmental conditions are suggested.

• Error scenario:

  • In case of any technical errors the users is notified about these.
  • When there are no matches due to too many constraints the user is informed that she has to remove a plant and try again.

• Postcondition:

  • The user can consider plants she would have never though of herself.

• Non-functional Constraints:

  • Performance