The impact of testcases on the maintainability of declarative process models

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

Volumn 81 LNBIP, Issue , 2011, Pages 163-177

  Zugal, Stefan ^a   Pinggera, Jakob ^a   Weber, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Declarative Business Process Models; Empirical Research; Test Driven Modeling

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; COGNITIVE LOADS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DEGREE OF FLEXIBILITY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; PERCEIVED QUALITY; PROCESS MODEL; PROCESS MODELING; TEST CASE; TEST DRIVEN MODELING; VOLATILE ENVIRONMENTS;

MAINTAINABILITY;

EID: 79960292262     PISSN: 18651348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21759-3_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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