Translating Business Process Models to Class Diagrams

Choreography of business processes can track messages between different services. At the time of writing, there are no guidelines t o d raw a U ML C lass D iagram f rom t he Business Process Choreography. This paper reports an experiment using a set of guidelines. Objective: Evaluate the subjects’ performance and perceptions when applying the BPc2Class-guidelines and BPc2Class-discovery process. Method: To measure the performance and user perception of both ways of mapping the processes, a comparative experiment was conducted with 38 subjects. The subjects, being master students, solved a process case in the first session and a guidelines case in the second session. A survey was filled in by the subjects to measure the user perception variables. Results: The results indicated that the guidelines showed significantly better results in five out of the six measured variables. Conclusion: Based on the findings and limitations of this research the use of guidelines looks promising, but future research is necessary to further generalize the conclusion

Capability driven development: an approach to designing digital enterprises

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12599-014-0362-0[EN] The need for organizations to operate in changing environments is addressed by proposing an approach that integrates organizational development with information system (IS) development taking into account changes in the application context of the solution. This is referred to as Capability Driven Development (CDD). A meta-model representing business and IS designs consisting of goals, key performance indicators, capabilities, context and capability delivery patterns, is being proposed. The use of the meta-model is validated in three industrial case studies as part of an ongoing collaboration project, whereas one case is presented in the paper. 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A REVIEW OF PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF USING MULTIPLE CONCEPTUAL MODELS

Conceptual models are used to visualise, envisage, and communicate the requirements, structure, and behaviour of a system. Particularly, during design and analysis phases, a model can serve as a tool to recognise different components, elements, actors, and relationships involved in a system. However, as a domain becomes complex, multiple models are needed to capture different aspects of a system. Further, each conceptual model develops using different grammars, methods, and tools. Therefore, using multiple models to represent a complex system may result in several problems, and challenges. This research aims to identify, analyse, and classify the different problems and issues encountered when using multiple models during information systems analysis and design through a structured literature review. Several problems are identified and are classified into seven main categories based on their common characteristics. The results of this study may serve as a baseline information for researchers in further understand-ing different modelling approaches and how multiple models can be used in harmony and reduce risks and issues. Also, the list of problems gathered will give insights to professionals on which issues they may possibly encounter when inter-relating various models

Validación del uso de métodos de producción de software de requisitos a código dirigidos por modelos

[ES] Esta tesis pretende estudiar y analizar las herramientas Great (Ruiz, 2018) e IntegraNova (IntegraNova, 2020) y la viabilidad del uso de ambas como forma de producir software. El método de producción se basa en modelos conceptuales de requisitos usando el método de Análisis Comunicacional, y en su transformación a un esquema conceptual del sistema siguiendo el OO-METHOD, para finalmente generar el código del software en forma automática. Para ello se realizará un estudio del funcionamiento de las tecnologías en las que se basan Análisis Comunicacional (GREAT) y OO-Method (IntegraNova) con su documentación plasmada en esta tesis. Tras aportar la documentación de las tecnologías y las herramientas se procederá a realiaar un caso de uso práctico que constará de un ejemplo guiado en el que se partirá de un sistema de información real, el cual será modelado con Great en análisis comunicacional y se realizará el proceso de transformaciones pertinente hasta llegar a convertirlo en el código equivalente que sirva para poder manejar ese sistema de información. Todo este proceso será documentado en detalle, ayudando a la comunidad de modelamiento a tener esta documentación disponible para cuando quieran investigar el funcionamiento de las herramientas, debido a que son herramientas experimentales y no constan de demasiada información sobre ellas. Al final de la tesis se evaluarán los resultados obtenidos en las diferentes fases del proyecto y se realizarán unas valoraciones para reflejar cuales son los problemas y las oportunidades que nos ofrece esta forma de producir código ante las formas de programar tradicionales.[EN] This thesis aims to study and analyze the Great (Ruiz, 2018) and IntegraNova (IntegraNova, 2020) tools and the feasibility of using both as a way of producing software. The production method is based on conceptual models of requirements using the Communicational Analysis method, and on its transformation to a conceptual scheme of the system following the OO-METHOD, to finally generate the software code automatically. To this end, a study of the operation of the technologies on which Communicational Analysis (GREAT) and OO-Method (IntegraNova) are based will be carried out with its documentation reflected in this thesis. After providing the documentation of the technologies and tools, a practical use case will be carried out that will consist of a guided example that will start from a real information system, which will be modeled with Great in communication analysis and the process of pertinent transformations until it is converted into the equivalent code that is used to be able to manage that information system. This entire process will be documented in detail, helping the modeling community to have this documentation available for when they want to investigate the operation of the tools, since they are experimental tools and do not contain much information about them. At the end of the thesis, the results obtained in the different phases of the project will be evaluated and some evaluations will be made to reflect what are the problems and opportunities that this way of producing code offers us compared to the traditional ways of programming.Rico Bellot, JV. (2020). Validación del uso de métodos de producción de software de requisitos a código dirigidos por modelos. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/152874TFG

Vom SOM-Geschäftsprozessmodell zum Softwareartefakt - modellgetriebene Systementwicklung mit dem Eclipse Modeling Framework

Zur Überbrückung der semantischen Lücke zwischen der fachlichen und der softwaretechnischen Ebene in der Systementwicklung schlägt diese Arbeit einen modellgetriebenen Ansatz ausgehend von Geschäftsprozessen hin zur Generierung von Quellcode für eine service-orientierte JavaEE-Architektur vor. Der Ansatz und ein implementiertes Software-Werkzeug nutzen das Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) anhand von Ecore-Modellen und QVTo-basierten Modelltransformationen. Service-orientierte Anwendungssysteme werden anhand einer Xtext- und ANTLR-basierten Grammatik beschrieben, die eine auf konzeptuellen Objekttypen und Vorgangsobjekttypen (KOS und VOS der SOM-Methodik) aufbauende Syntax vorschlägt. Resultierende Ecore-Modelle sind anhand von QVTo in ein komponentenorientiertes Softwaremodell auf Basis von JavaEE überführbar. Die Transformation dieses Modells in Quellcode erzeugt ein auf einer Referenz-Architektur basierendes verteiltes Software-System bestehend aus Entitäts- und Vorgangs-Services, einschließlich JPA-Entities, SessionBeans, MessageDrivenBeans mit Message Queues und EJB-Module-Konfigurationen