METHODOLOGIES, TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

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1 METHODOLOGIES, TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON MODELS Dra. Ing. Andrea Delgado, Dr. Ing. Daniel Calegari COAL, InCo, FING, UdelaR 6 de Abril de 2016 Montevideo, Uruguay

2 Outline Context & Motivation COAL research lines BPM lifecycle ICT4V project Conclusions & future work

3 Context & Motivation Business Processes Organizations carry out their daily operations to achieve their objectives Software real execution as key input to find improvement opportunities Software supporting them mostly have BPs implicitly included in user s screens

4 Context & Motivation Business Processes Organizations carry out their daily operations to achieve their objectives BUSINESS SYSTEMS GAP Software real execution as key input to find improvement opportunities Software supporting them mostly have BPs implicitly included in user s screens

5 Context & Motivation Our vision to solve this problem has two main pillars Software development is top-down from business definitions Models as first-class citizens for all the software development process H O R I Z O N T A L V E R T I C A L Business processes Software design Software implementation

6 COAL research lines Business Process Management and Technologies (BPM, BPMS) Model Driven Engineering and Development (MDE, MDD) Service Oriented Computing and Architectures (SOC, SOA)

7 BPM lifecycle (extended) (Delgado et al, ) (Weske, 2007) BPSOM methodology for SO development from BPs A. Delgado, D. Calegari, Business Process Management (BPM): aspectos clave para la construcción de software de soporte e impacto en la mejora continua de las organizaciones, INNOTEC Gestión No. 6, 2014.

8 BPM lifecycle :: Design & Analysis Focus on identifying and modeling BPs in organizations, validation (simulation) and verification Important aspects: BP models as basis for BPM providing a common view and understanding (make BPs explicit) Best practices for modeling (WPatterns, 7PMG) Joint work of Business and IT areas to bridge the gap between Business and Systems Focus in standards

9 BPM lifecycle :: Design & Analysis Some works related to this phase Automatic generation of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) from BPMN 2.0 BPs to implement services (FCE-ANII) Analysis of the BPSim standard (simulation) and tools support, extension of Activiti BPMN 2.0 modeler 4 simulation Automatic generation of variants in business process families

10 BPM lifecycle :: Configuration Focus on implementing the BPs in a selected BPMS Using BPMN 2.0 the model is the same adding execution information Some works related with this phase Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM) for software development from BPs Systematic approach and methodology for evaluating BPMS tools based on a selected list of characteristics Definition of a generic information model and API for BPMS portal, allowing changing the process engine and the GUI

11 BPM lifecycle :: Enactment Focus on executing BPs within the organization s daily operation, collecting real execution data Start: timestamp Complete: timestamp Originator: Person (Weske, 2007)

12 BPM lifecycle :: Evaluation Focus on analyzing the real execution data gathered in the previous phase, to find improvement opportunities Works related with this phase Business Process Continuous Improvement Process (BPCIP) to guide BPs measurement and improvement efforts Business Process Execution Measurement Model (BPEMM) providing a set of core execution measures for BPs BPEMM plug-in for ProM to be able to analyze these measures within the ProM framework

13 ICT4V project :: general idea BP-centric approach Many viewpoints expressing requirements (textual notation is one of them) Intermediate language based on BPMN for PAIS (Process-Aware Information Systems) Model-driven development to several (possibly) different execution platforms

14 ICT4V project :: general idea BP model Data model GUI Viewpoints Textual notation Business rules BPMN+ Control flow Resources Business rules Structured data GUI Etc. Execution platforms: BPMS, DB engine, Java code, WS, etc.

15 ICT4V project :: objectives 1. Definition of an (un)structured textual language for expressing BP (control flow, resources, data) 2. Automatic generation of a BPMN model from this language 3. Automatic enriching of the BPMN model for prototype generation 1. For selected platforms allowing basic execution (user and service tasks) F. Friedrich, Automated Generation of Business Process Models from Natural Language, Master Thesis, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2010

16 ICT4V project :: example

17 Conclusions & future work Implementing systems that supports the horizontal BPs vision in organizations requires explicit modeling of BPs, working jointly with the business area, with an adequate notation (i.e. BPMN 2.0) Models are first-class citizens in development translated to one into another and vice versa in the same level refining the level of abstraction each time until reaching code Automating the process of software artifacts from BP models increases reusability and productivity, minimizing the error prone process of manual translation

18 METHODOLOGIES, TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON MODELS Dra. Ing. Andrea Delgado, Dr. Ing. Daniel Calegari COAL, InCo, FING, UdelaR 6 de Abril de 2016 Montevideo, Uruguay