Extension of the BPM lifecycle to promote the maintainability of BPMN models

Maintainability is one of the quality attributes of special interest to facilitate the evolution and the maintenance task of business process models in a highly dynamic environment. In this paper, we propose a solution based on a new extension of the BPM lifecycle to promote the maintainability of b...

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Published in:Procedia computer science 2021, Vol.181, p.852-860
Main Authors: Haj Ayech, Hajer Ben, Ghannouchi, Sonia Ayachi, El Hadj Amor, Emna Ammar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
BPM lifecycle
Business process maintainability
Maintainability metrics
Maintenance lifecycle
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Summary:Maintainability is one of the quality attributes of special interest to facilitate the evolution and the maintenance task of business process models in a highly dynamic environment. In this paper, we propose a solution based on a new extension of the BPM lifecycle to promote the maintainability of business process models. Particularly, we considered a set of static maintainability metrics that are tightly related to the modifiability and maintainability of business process models. For the validation of our solution, we apply it in the medical field. We evaluate the static maintainability metrics in the modeling phase in the BPM lifecycle. After this assessment, a set of recommendations is given to allow the designer to improve the maintainability of the considered models and facilitate maintenance tasks in the future.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2021.01.239