Generation of user interfaces from business process model notation (BPMN)

Abstract

Business Process Model Notation focuses on functional processes; so, the design of the interface generally depends on the subjective experience of the analyst. This thesis proposes a new method to generate interfaces from BPMN models. The idea is to identify rules from BPMN to interfaces in existing real projects. We have analyzed 7 Bizagi projects to generalize a list of rules. It has been done considering five BPMN patterns. Apart from BPMN primitives, there are rules that depend on elements of Class Diagrams to know how to generate the interfaces. When the rules have several alternatives to generate the interfaces, we need an unambiguous semantics to specify which alternative we are going to use. We propose extending the BPMN model with new stereotypes to specify when using each alternative. Which alternatives could improve the usability among all the possibilities is also a target of study in the thesis.

Case Study of Designing Interface of the AGH Students Information Bulletin Work Support System

“…To define use cases for the discussed application, we based our research on Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), which is a common standard for representing application flows [17]. Although there exist methods to generate graphical user interface prototypes based on process models [18], [19], due to large process complexity we decided to perform this action manually.…”

Usage of Autogenerator in Handling of Dynamic Specification

“…Supported by tools like 'bizagi' (www.bizagi.com) it is used for generation of some part of applications e.g. user interfaces [29] and GUI Prototypes [30]. BPMN can also be used for generation of executable Web services in Enterprise resource planning (ERP) domain [31].…”