Analyzing Functional Changes in BPMN Models using COSMIC

Wiem Khlif, Mariem Haoues, Asma Sellami, Hanêne Ben-Abdallah

2017

Abstract

When performing functional requirements analysis, software developers need to understand the application domain to fulfil organizational needs. This is essential for making trade-off decisions and achieving the success of the software development project. An application domain is dealt within the modelling phase of the business process lifecycle. Assuming that functional changes are inevitable, we propose to use the standard COSMIC to evaluate these changes and provide indicators of change status in the business domain. Expressing functional changes in terms of COSMIC Function Point units can be helpful in identifying changes leading to potential impact on the business process's functional size. In addition, we propose a top-down decomposition approach to specify requirements and analyse change impact on BPMN models at different abstraction levels.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Khlif W., Haoues M., Sellami A. and Ben-Abdallah H. (2017). Analyzing Functional Changes in BPMN Models using COSMIC . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-758-262-2, pages 265-274. DOI: 10.5220/0006418902650274

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft17,
author={Wiem Khlif and Mariem Haoues and Asma Sellami and Hanêne Ben-Abdallah},
title={Analyzing Functional Changes in BPMN Models using COSMIC},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2017},
pages={265-274},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006418902650274},
isbn={978-989-758-262-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Analyzing Functional Changes in BPMN Models using COSMIC
SN - 978-989-758-262-2
AU - Khlif W.
AU - Haoues M.
AU - Sellami A.
AU - Ben-Abdallah H.
PY - 2017
SP - 265
EP - 274
DO - 10.5220/0006418902650274