Managing Variability at Business Process Level for Information Systems Product Lines

Variability management is a major concern in successful exploitation of variabilities and commonalities of software product families which also affects different aspects of development activities. To use software product line approach in information systems context, it is necessary to bring in variability in different phases of the life cycle, including business modeling which is recognized as a key part of developing enterprise information systems. This paper presents a method for variability management at business process level which covers the activities of eliciting variability, representing variability in business process models, and also managing dependencies among different variabilities. The method supports traceability by mapping variabilities at business process level to assets of lower levels of abstraction, including feature and use case models. To model business processes, UML activity diagrams are exploited.

کلیدواژه ها:

Software product line ، Variability management ، Business process modeling