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Towards Business Process Execution Adequacy Criteria

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Monitoring of business process execution has been proposed for the evaluation of business process performance. An important aspect to assess the thoroughness of the business process execution is to monitor if some entities have not been observed for some time and timely check if something is going wrong. We propose in this paper business process execution adequacy criteria and provide a proof-of-concept monitoring framework for their assessment. Similar to testing adequacy, the purpose of our approach is to identify the main entities of the business process that are covered during its execution and raise a warning if some entities are not covered. We provide a first assessment of the proposed approach on a case study in the learning context.

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Notes

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    Sequence Flow is used to show the order in which activities of a process will be performed. A Sequence Flow connection is represented with a solid line and a solid arrowhead in a Business Process Model.

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    Note that for this specific business process path entity coincides with sequence flow entity.

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This work has been partially funded by the Model-Based Social Learning for Public Administrations project (EU FP7-ICT-2013-11/619583).

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  1. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Antonia Bertolino, Antonello Calabró, Francesca Lonetti & Eda Marchetti

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Bertolino, A., Calabró, A., Lonetti, F., Marchetti, E. (2016). Towards Business Process Execution Adequacy Criteria. In: Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality. The Future of Systems- and Software Development. SWQD 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27033-3_3

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