Title :
Business Process-Aware Maintenance Task: A Preliminary Empirical Study
Author :
Aversano, Lerina ; Tortorella, Maria
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Sannio, Benevento
Abstract :
In this paper, the authors investigate the usefulness of the knowledge regarding business processes for clarifying change requirements concerning the software systems supporting them. With this in mind, the correctness and completeness of the change requirement impact have been evaluated with and without the business process knowledge. Results of this preliminary empirical study are encouraging and indicate that business information effectively provides a significant help to software maintainers.
Keywords :
business process re-engineering; software maintenance; systems software; business information; business process knowledge; business process-aware maintenance task; software maintenance; software systems; Application software; Business process re-engineering; Documentation; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge management; Software maintenance; Software systems; Unified modeling language; XML; Business Process knowledge; Software system evolution; Software system maintenance;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2009. CSMR '09. 13th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kaiserslautern
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3589-0
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.2009.53
