A Framework for Modeling, Building and Maintaining Enterprise Information Systems Software

Abstract

Abstract. An Enterprise Information System (EIS) software has three main aspects: data, which are processed to generate business information; application functions, which transform data into information; and business rules, which control and restrict the manipulation of data by functions. Traditional approaches to EIS software development consider data and application functions. Rules are second class citizens, embedded on the specification of either data (as database integrity constraints) or on the EIS functions (as a part of the application software). This work presents a new, integrated approach for the development and maintenance of EIS software. The main ideas are to focus on the conceptual modeling of the three aspects of the EIS software -application functions, business rules, and database schema -and to automatically generate code for each of these software aspects. This improves software quality, reducing redundancies by centralizing EIS definitions on a single conceptual model. Due to automatic generation of code, this approach increases the software engineering staff productivity, making it possible to respond to the continuous changes in the business domain.

User Interface Stereotypes: A Model-Based Approach for Information Systems User Interfaces

“…A mechanism must interpret the concrete UI description in order to generate the final UI for execution in a specific platform. An architecture of components for UI mana-gement has been implemented and integrated with an existent application framework for IS [Almeida et al 2009, de Oliveira et al 2011, Graciano Neto and de Oliveira 2013. However, due to space limitations, it is not possible to discuss the details of this architecture here.…”

“…The MBUI approach for automatic building of UI presented in this paper takes into account the behavioral and presentation aspects of IS applications and overcomes some important limitations of current methods, namely the specification of IS applications behavior in response to user interactions, and the integration of UI and IS applications software. This approach is based on the extension and integration of two frameworks: the UI development model proposed by [da Costa et al 2010] and the IS software application framework described by [Almeida et al 2009]. The cornerstone of the proposed MBUI development model is the concept of User Interface Stereotype, which allows the definition of a set of metamodels for building ISUI.…”

Evolução de uma Arquitetura de Framework de Aplicação para Sistemas de Informação com Desenvolvimento Dirigido por Modelos

“…Detalhes sobre a arquitetura da primeira versão do framework podem ser obtidos em [Almeida et al 2009, da Silva 2010, Boff 2010. A próxima sec ¸ão descreve detalhes da segunda versão da arquitetura.…”

“…Apesar dos sucessos iniciais atingidos na construc ¸ão de um FA para SI [Almeida et al 2009], o surgimento de novos requisitos explicitou dificuldades em evoluir a arquitetura da versão original desse FA devido a problemas como replicac ¸ão e espalhamento de código, baixa flexibilidade da arquitetura e, principalmente, a falta de referencial teórico sobre FA associados a ESDM [Graciano Neto et al 2010].…”

Um Componente para Gerência de Processos de Negócio em Sistemas de Informação

“…O Grupo de Pesquisa em Engenharia de Software do Instituto de Informática da Universidade Federal de Goiás (INF/UFG) tem pesquisado sobre a construção de componentes para apoiar o desenvolvimento de software para SI contemplando estes aspectos. Neste sentido, um framework para criação de software específico de domínio foi construído para apoiar o desenvolvimento de SI baseado em modelos de alto-nível [Almeida et al 2009]. Esse framework dá suporte à geração automática e à manutenção de software de SI usando modelos conceituais.…”