[W]hile user stories and use cases are definitely similar, there are important differences between them. Each serves a distinct purpose, and I think they both have their place on a well-run software project.

→ Requirements 101: User Stories vs. Use Cases

Sehr pointiert fasst Alastair Cockburn die Diskussion zusammen:

Why is a raven like a writing desk?, asked Lewis Caroll in “Alice Through the Looking Glass”. Because each begins with ‘e’ (is the accepted answer)

What’s the difference between a user story and a use case?, asks almost everyone. — silence follows — (because there is no accepted answer)

In A user story is to a use case as a gazelle is to a gazebo, I concluded that the answer is: after the first three letters, they have nothing in common.

Wer sich aber trotzdem genauer mit den Unterschieden befassen will, dem kann ich noch einen Artikel von Jean Claude Grosjean empfehlen, in dem er 14 Unterschiede aufzählt.

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