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The Computer Journal 2009 52(8):1006-1026; doi:10.1093/comjnl/bxn076
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This article appears in the following The Computer Journal issue: Incorporating Systems, communications and services in smart homes and Software engineering for e-business Special Issues [View the issue table of contents]

B2B Services: Worksheet-Driven Development of Modeling Artifacts and Code

Christian Huemer, Philipp Liegl*, Rainer Schuster and Marco Zapletal

Institute of Software Technology, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 9-11/188, 1040 Vienna, Austria

* Corresponding author: liegl{at}big.tuwien.ac.at

Received 18 January 2008; revised 5 November 2008

In the development process of a B2B system, it is crucial that the business experts are able to express and evaluate agreements and commitments between the partners, and that the software engineers get all necessary information to bind the private process interfaces to the public ones. UN/CEFACT's modeling methodology (UMM) is a Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile for developing B2B processes. The formalisms introduced by UMM's stereotypes facilitate the communication with the software engineers. However, business experts—who usually have a very limited understanding of UML—prefer expressing their thoughts and evaluating the results by plain text descriptions. In this paper, we describe an approach that presents an equivalent of the UMM stereotypes and tagged values in text-based templates called worksheets. This strong alignment allows an integration into a UMM modeling tool and ensures consistency. We show how a specially designed XML-based worksheet definition language allows customization to special needs of certain business domains. Furthermore, we demonstrate how information kept in worksheets may be used for the semi-automatic generation of pattern-based UMM artifacts which are later transformed to web service definition language and business process execution language code.

Key Words: worksheet-driven requirements engineering • business process modeling • derivation of software artifacts • UN/CEFACT's modeling methodology • unified modeling language • business choreographies and orchestration • service-oriented architecture • worksheet definition language • business collaborations • business transactions

Handling editor: Shing-Chi Cheung


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