Title
On the Measurement of Design-Time Adaptability for Process-Based Systems
Abstract
Today, process languages are frequently used for implementing service-oriented systems and a variety of specifications for this task exist. These specifications strive for the portability of processes among different runtime environments, i.e., process engines. However, direct portability, especially of executable processes, is seldom achieved. If processes cannot be ported directly among engines, an option is to adapt them. Such an adaptation is nontrivial and hence automated support is desirable. A first step in this direction is the quantification of the design-time adaptability of a process. This quantification is the goal of this paper. We formally define software metrics for measuring the design-time adaptability of processes and validate them theoretically with respect to measurement theory and construct validity using two validation frameworks. Moreover, we implement the metrics computation for Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) processes and demonstrate their practical applicability with an evaluation of a large set of open source processes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/SOSE.2015.37
2015 IEEE Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Adaptability,Metrics,BPMN
Adaptability,Computer science,Real-time computing,Porting,Software portability,Software metric,Business process modeling,Business Process Model and Notation,Executable,Computation,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jörg Lenhard110012.50
Matthias Geiger270.80
Guido Wirtz345066.55