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Methodological Dimension / Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM)

This page contains the elements comprising the Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM) which is developed as an Eclipse Process Framework Composer (EPF Composer) method plug-in. The first link allows navigating in the BPSOM Web site generated by the EPF Composer, the second link allows downloading the BPSOM method plug-in sources in EPF Composer as a zip file, to be imported into EPF Composer and added to the software base development process used in the organization for service oriented development based on business processes, finally the third link presents experimental material associated with BPSOM.      

•  BPSOM Web site (EPF Composer generated) presents the defined elements in BPSOM with complete description of it use in a tree browser that can be easily navigated using the generated links between elements. 

•  EPF Composer Method plug-in download allows the import of the method plug-in into EPF Composer to be integrated with other existing processes definition to generate your own method configuration to be published. Just unzip the file and point the EPF Composer import option to the bpsom extracted directory selecting method plug-in bpsom. 
• Experimental material 

Overview

The Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM) extends a previous defined methodology which defines a core set of disciplines: Business Modeling, Design and Implementation, activities, deliverables and roles to be added to the software development process used in the organization. Conceptually the methodology can be added as a plug-in to the base software development process used in the organization, adding the new elements to guide the service oriented development from business processes. To make this integration effective, we have developed it with the Software Process Engineering Metamodel (SPEM) (OMG, 200X) as an Eclipse Process Framework Composer (EPF Composer) (Eclipse, 200X) method plug-in to be integrated in the organization's existing software development process. In Fig. 1 the integration of BPSOM with the existing base software development process is shown.

Fig. 1 Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM) as BPMN business process

In Fig. 2 the defined core set of disciplines: Business Modeling, Design and Implementation, its activities and execution flow are shown as a BPMN2 (OMG,2011) process model. It also shows how the methodology defines several related activities to develop service oriented systems from business processes, starting with business process modeling where the use of process patterns (van der Aalst, 2003) is recommended. It can also be noticed how the flow of BPSOM activities is integrated with the existing Requirements Discipline from the base software development process used.

Fig. 2 Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM) as BPMN business process

BPSOM also defines input and output deliverables (i.e. Services document) and responsible and participant roles for the defined activities, as well as a detailed description of objectives and tasks to be carried out when performing the activity, which are summarized in Table 1.

Table 1. Elements defined in the methodology related to the core activities

Key Publications:

• Delgado, A., García-Rodríguez de Guzmán, I., Ruiz, F., Piattini, M.: "Model transformations for Business-IT alignment: from collaborative Business Process to SoaML service models". In 27th. Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'12), Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy, March (2012)

• Delgado, A., Ruiz, F., García-Rodríguez de Guzmán, I., Piattini, M.: “Business Process Service Oriented Methodology (BPSOM) with Service generation in SoaML”. In 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'11), London, United Kingdom, June (2011)

• Delgado, A., García - Rodríguez de Guzmán, I., Ruiz, F., Piattini, M.: “From BPMN business process models to SoaML service models: a transformation-driven approach”. In 2nd International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering (ICSTE 2010), San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, USA, October (2010).

• Delgado, A., Ruiz, F., García - Rodríguez de Guzmán, I., Piattini, M.: "Towards a Service-Oriented and Model-Driven framework with business processes as first-class citizens", In 2nd International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC’09), Leipzig, Germany, March (2009).

Author: Andrea Delgado 2010