A Decoupling Approach to Business Component Identification

Effective Business Component Identification (BCI) is important to the success of Component-Based Information System Development (CBISD). In this paper, a BCI approach based on decoupling analysis is presented. Based on Business Process Graph (BPG), the approach makes use of graph partitioning to identify coupling business process subsets and transforms them into the corresponding business components. According to the relations between coupling business process subsets, the relations of business components are derived. The approach reduces the coupling between components and improves the cohesion of the individual components. Moreover, it creates the intelligible mapping between business processes and business components, and improves the understandability of component identification results. An application case is provided to test the approach.