They always describe the goal from the Actors' perspective, the details of the Use Case will describe the goal with more precision.
The Use Case diagram is used to describe the goals that users or other systems want to achieve from interacting with the system.
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They are typically used in conjunction with higher level Business and Stakeholder Requirements and are often supplemented with a set of Non Functional Requirements.
