Introducing Software Process Tailoring to BPMN: BPMNt

Author

Pillat, Raquel M. ; Oliveira, Toacy C. ; Fonseca, Fabio L.

Author_Institution

Syst. Eng. & Comput. Sci. Program - PESC / COPPE, Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

2-3 June 2012

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

62

Abstract

BPMN 2.0 is a widely used notation to model business process that has associated tools and techniques to facilitate process management, execution and monitoring. As a result using BPMN to model Software Development Process (SDP) can leverage on the BPMN´s infrastructure to improve SDP quality. Nevertheless, when using BPMN to model Software Processes one can observe the lack of an important feature: means to represent process tailoring. This article introduces the BPMNt, a conservative extension to BPMN that aims at aggregating a tailoring representation mechanism as the one found at SPEM 2.0. BPMNt uses the extensibility classes already present in the BPMN meta-model. Our work also presents an example to illustrate the approach.

Keywords

business data processing; software management; software process improvement; software quality; BPMN 2.0; BPMN meta-model; BPMNt; SDP quality improvement; SPEM 2.0; business process model; process execution; process management; process monitoring; software development process model; software process tailoring; tailoring representation mechanism; Adaptation models; Business; Programming; Semantics; Software; Standards; Unified modeling language; BPMN; software process; software process tailoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software and System Process (ICSSP), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2351-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2350-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSP.2012.6225981

Filename

6225981