Authors: Emanuel Santos, Jaelson Castro, João Pimentel, Juan Sánchez, Oscar Pastor
Tags: 2010, conceptual modeling
The existence of variations in the organizational environment makes the configuration of business process models a complex activity, even for experienced business analysts. The increasing adoption of business processes models by software engineers as a input for requirements analysis strengthens the importance of adressing this issue. The challenge is to configure business processes to fit the organization better. We propose an approach that combines variability analysis and non-functional requirements to drive the configuration of a business process. Applying this approach we can analyze variability in the model in order to assess the impact of the choices on the process quality constraints – the non-functional requirements. Moreover, it provides a rationale for the selection of a specific configuration.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-13051-9_23