Bridging Enterprise and Software Engineering Through an User-Centered Design Perspective

Valente, Pedro; Silva, Thiago; Winckler, Marco; Nunes, Nuno

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48743-4_28

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“…As can be seen from the obtained results, the most relevant features are the following: rule-based, changes at run-time, context-sensitive, and DBP feasibility. The importance of the rule-based feature can be explained by the phenomenon that BRs are widely agreed between researchers and practitioners as a way to express business knowledge and govern BP ( Valente et al, 2016a , 2016b ; Vasilecas, Kalibatiene & Lavbič, 2016 ). Consequently, there is a number of researches appling busyiness rules for ensuring BP dynamicity.…”

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A survey on modeling dynamic business processes

Kalibatiene

Vasilecas

2021

PeerJ Computer Science

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Dynamic and flexible systems offer huge advantages for businesses in addressing dynamic uncertain factors and implementing dynamic business processes (DBP). However, DBP remains a challenge from the perspectives of modeling, simulation, and implementation because of a nontrivial understanding of “What is a dynamic business process?” A variety of approaches for DBP modeling and implementation have been proposed over the past years, yet few comprehensive studies analyzing DBP from different particular perspectives (e.g., business process (BP) variability, aspect oriented BP, service compositions, etc.) and research questions that lay the foundation for the development of a meaning of a DBP have been reported. The motivation behind this review is to examine DBP meaning from a global perspective and, consequently, answer the previously presented research question. Therefore, in this paper, we present a systematic literature review (SLR) comprised of 67 papers from five respective digital libraries, which index Computer Science (CS), Information Systems (IS), and Software Engineering (SE) journals and conference proceedings. Two points of view are analyzed in the selected papers. First, we observe the similarities and differences between the proposed approaches to DBP modeling and implementation. From these observations, we define six main requirements for DBP (DBPR). In addition, the comparison of the selected papers according to DBPR shows that most of the approaches analyzed limit BP dynamicity, since they use partially predefined BP models. Secondly, we analyze the papers based on a visualization perspective that shows the less explored areas as follows: more flexible process modeling approach and its implementation in IS should be developed; usage of historic data should be extended; domain knowledge usage, like goal-orientation, multi-criteria optimization, domain knowledge, artificial intelligence, etc., should be included and extended to ensure BP dynamicity. As such, this study makes important contributions and serves as a useful resource for future DBP studies and practice. Moreover, we expect that our results could inspire researchers and practitioners towards further work aimed at bringing forward the field of DBP modeling and implementation.

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A survey on modeling dynamic business processes

Kalibatiene

Vasilecas

2021

PeerJ Computer Science

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“…Authors [4,9,10,28] found that BR specifically prepared for the project positively affect software implementation project success because they can help in specifying requirements, software design, software architecture and creating test cases.…”

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“…The impact of BR on enterprise software implementation project success has been argued in several software disciplines, such as requirements specification [3][4][5][6], software quality assurance [7], software evolution [8], business modelling [9,10], etc. Moreover, Lal [4] claims that BR are relevant to the entire software project life cycle.…”

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Identifying Key Characteristics of Business Rules That Affect Software Project Success

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Today, businesses need to continuously adjust to a dynamic environment. Enterprises have to deal with global competition and technological advances, meet government regulations, and keep their expenses under control. Under these pressures, enterprises need to implement and improve software that supports and helps to evolve their business. However, as practice shows, software implementation projects are complex, and a considerable percentage of them do not meet business requirements. Therefore, a business needs to manage software implementation properly. Existing research shows that using business rules (BR) in software implementation projects helps to ensure its success. The purpose of our study is to advance the understanding of how BR affect software implementation success, namely, which key characteristics of BR are the most important. To achieve this goal, the top thousand enterprises in Slovenia, by added value, facing typical software implementation projects were surveyed. The obtained results show that BR that are specifically prepared for a particular project and easy to understand have a statistically significant positive effect on software implementation project success.

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“…In different contexts from those investigated by our approach, studies have also been conducted to explore the use of BDD as part of empirical analysis of acceptance test-driven development [26]. Other studies have concentrated in the use of automated acceptance testing to support BDD traceability [21], or in analyzing its compatibility with business modeling [8], [9], enterprise modeling [47], [48], [46] and with BPMN [23].…”

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Ensuring the Consistency between User Requirements and Task Models: A Behavior-Based Automated Approach

Silva

Winckler

Trætteberg

2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Evaluating and ensuring the consistency between user requirements and modeling artifacts is a long-time issue for model-based software design. Conflicts in requirements specifications can lead to many design errors and have a decisive impact on the quality of systems under development. This article presents an approach based on Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) to provide automated assessment for task models, which are intended to model the flow of user and system tasks in an interactive system. The approach has been evaluated by exploiting user requirements described by a group of experts in the domain of business trips. Such requirements gave rise to a set of BDD stories that have been used to automatically assess scenarios extracted from task models that were reengineered from an existing web system for booking business trips. The results have shown our approach, by performing a static analysis of the source files, was able to identify different types of inconsistencies between the user requirements and the set of task models analyzed.

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Bridging Enterprise and Software Engineering Through an User-Centered Design Perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

A survey on modeling dynamic business processes

A survey on modeling dynamic business processes

Identifying Key Characteristics of Business Rules That Affect Software Project Success

Ensuring the Consistency between User Requirements and Task Models: A Behavior-Based Automated Approach

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