Using COSMIC FSM Method to Analyze the Impact of Functional Changes in Business Process Models

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

2018

Abstract

Today's dynamic, socioeconomic constraints often force enterprises to change their Business Processes (BP), for instance, by deleting some activities or merging certain work units. These changes induce functional changes on the business process whose performance might be affected. Consequently, there is need for a well-defined change measure and a control process to ensure the success of the BP management projects. This paper proposes to apply COSMIC Functional Size Measurement method to evaluate the BP functional changes to help both business process developers and decision makers to accept/defer or deny a functional change. The proposed evaluation identifies the real impact of a functional change on the project and provides indicators for analyzing the functional change status. In addition, when there are multiple change requests, it uses a heuristic algorithm to prioritize the changes while minimizing the required effort to answer them.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Khlif W., Sellami A., Haoues M. and Ben-Abdallah H. (2018). Using COSMIC FSM Method to Analyze the Impact of Functional Changes in Business Process Models.In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-300-1, pages 124-136. DOI: 10.5220/0006707301240136

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase18,
author={Wiem Khlif and Asma Sellami and Mariem Haoues and Hanêne Ben-Abdallah},
title={Using COSMIC FSM Method to Analyze the Impact of Functional Changes in Business Process Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2018},
pages={124-136},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006707301240136},
isbn={978-989-758-300-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Using COSMIC FSM Method to Analyze the Impact of Functional Changes in Business Process Models
SN - 978-989-758-300-1
AU - Khlif W.
AU - Sellami A.
AU - Haoues M.
AU - Ben-Abdallah H.
PY - 2018
SP - 124
EP - 136
DO - 10.5220/0006707301240136