A business process explorer: recovering and visualizing e-commerce business processes

Authors:
Jin Guo;King Chun Foo;Liliane Barbour;Ying Zou
Affiliations:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada;Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Year:
2008

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Abstract

A business process is composed of a set of interrelated tasks which are joined together by control flow elements. E-commerce systems implement business processes to automate the daily operations of an organization. Organizations must continuously modify their e-commerce systems to accommodate changes to business processes. However, modifying e-commerce systems is a time consuming and error prone task. To correctly perform this task, developers require an in-depth understanding of multi-tiered e-commerce systems and the business processes that they implement. In this paper, we present a business process explorer tool which automatically recovers business processes from three tier e-commerce systems. Developers can explore the recovered business processes and browse the corresponding source code. We integrate our tool with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler (WBM), a leading commercial tool for business process management and modeling. Business analysts could then visualize and analyze the recovered processes using WBM. The business process explorer eases the co-evolution of business processes and their e-commerce system implementation.