On the use of patterns to recover business processes

Pérez‐Castillo, Ricardo; Guzmán, Ignacio García Rodriguez de; Piattini, Mario

doi:10.1145/1774088.1774121

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“…These heuristic rules are according with Business Process Patterns [15], which defines standards of business process implementations, i.e., specifies the structure of source code elements (described by KDM elements) that generate specific business structures in BPMN models. These heuristic rules are divided into two categories, inclusion rules and exclusion rules.…”

Section: B Business Elements Identificationmentioning

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An Approach to Business Process Recovery from Source Code

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2015 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations

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Over time Business Process has become an asset for organization since it allows managing what happens within their environments. It is possible to automate some activities of the business process using information systems and accordingly decrease the execution time and increase the production. However, information systems often suffer maintenance over time and become obsolete and a re-engineering process is necessary. In this case, the business knowledge, located more accurately the reality in source code, should be maintained. Thereof, this paper propose an approach to support the business process recovery from source code. For this purpose, the approach uses KDM standard with a set of heuristic rules to identify relevant code elements to the business layer. As result, the models are generated according to the BPMN specification that, together with other artifacts, provide more subsidies to the professionals involved. To evaluate the effectiveness of the approach, a case study was performed in an Academic Management System.

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Section: B Business Elements Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Approach to Business Process Recovery from Source Code

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Prado

Souza

et al. 2015

2015 12th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations

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Implementing Business Process Recovery Patterns through QVT Transformations

Pérez‐Castillo

Guzmán

Piattini

2010

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

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Abstract. Traditionally, software maintenance takes only technical information into account to evolve legacy systems. However, business knowledge, which could help to improve the comprehension of legacy systems, is rarely recovered. Probably, that knowledge is not considered due to the fact that business knowledge recovery is a problem with a non trivial solution. This paper contributes to the solution of this problem through the use of a set of patterns and the implementation through QVT transformations, which takes KDM (Knowledge Discovery Metamodel) models concerning the system and obtains BPMN (Business Processes Model and Notation) models to represent the embedded business knowledge. A case study reports that the transformation obtains cohesive and loosely-coupling business processes diagrams; and it is scalable to large systems. As a consequence, the business processes recovery can enhance the maintenance since they provide the business concept location in legacy systems, among other improvements.

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