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Aligning the Elements of the RUP/UML Business Use-Case Model and the BPMN Business Process Diagram

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Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2017)

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Context and Motivation: The Business Use Case Model (BUCM) formalized in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) defines stereotypes of elements refining the UML Use Case Model for coarse-grained business processes modeling (BPM). The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) Business Process Diagram (BPD) is designed for workflow-based (i.e. fine-grained) BPM. These are frameworks that can possibly be complementary for enterprise modeling. Question/Problem: The semantically richer BPMN BPD can be used instead of UML activity diagrams for operational BPM when the BUCM is used for tactical BPM. Principal ideas/results: The common use of the BUCM and BPMN BPD requires anchoring of elements in between the frameworks to ensure traceability. Traceable models increase their overall consistency. Contribution: The paper allowed to set up traceability rules for the combined use of these frameworks.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    We do not refer here to the Use Case Model (UCM) as defined by the OMG in [8] but to the refinement proposed in the business modeling discipline from the RUP (see [3, 6]).

  2. 2.

    The only strategic elements within the BUCM are the business goal and objectives.

  3. 3.

    It depends if, from the point of view of the modeler’s organization, the business actor is involved in a private or public workflow. Indeed, a process purely within the business actor’s organization is private and not documented (this is known as Collaboration); a process where realization requires coordination is partially public because the information and objects needed to be exchanged should be documented (this is known as Choreography), see [7].

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Wautelet, Y., Poelmans, S. (2017). Aligning the Elements of the RUP/UML Business Use-Case Model and the BPMN Business Process Diagram. In: Grünbacher, P., Perini, A. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10153. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54045-0_2

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