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ABSTRACT

The business process has gained a lot of importance for design and development of software in general and web applications in particular. Moreover, a shift from individual and separate application development to customization of pre-engineered solutions promotes significant reductions in time-to-market and maintenance effort. Applying the concept of process-based software product lines to webdevelopment promises to enable the average business user to generate ready--to--run web applications from comprehensive business process models. This case-study attempts to validate the concepts of Process Family Engineering in a concrete application domain by developing a software generator for process-based web applications for e-business.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.3 Software Management
          Subjects: Software development; Software process

General Terms:
Design

Keywords:
business process, modeling, process family engineering, product line, software generation, web development