BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design

A critical success factor for information systems is their ability to evolve as their environment changes. There is compelling evidence that the management of change in business policy can have a profound effect on an information system's ability to evolve effectively and efficiently. For this...

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Main Authors: Loucopoulos, P., Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir
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Published: Information Resources Management Association 2008
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/9633/
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description A critical success factor for information systems is their ability to evolve as their environment changes. There is compelling evidence that the management of change in business policy can have a profound effect on an information system's ability to evolve effectively and efficiently. For this to be successful, there is a need to represent business rules from the early requirements stage, expressed in user-understandable terms, to downstream system design components and maintain these throughout the lifecycle of the system. Any user-oriented changes could then be traced and if necessary propagated from requirements to design specifications and evaluated by both end-users and developers about their impact on the system. The BROOD approach, discussed in this article, aims to provide seamless traceability between requirements and system designs through the modelling of business rules and the successive transformations, using UML as the modelling framework
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spelling utm-96332017-10-23T10:47:51Z http://eprints.utm.my/9633/ BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design Loucopoulos, P. Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science A critical success factor for information systems is their ability to evolve as their environment changes. There is compelling evidence that the management of change in business policy can have a profound effect on an information system's ability to evolve effectively and efficiently. For this to be successful, there is a need to represent business rules from the early requirements stage, expressed in user-understandable terms, to downstream system design components and maintain these throughout the lifecycle of the system. Any user-oriented changes could then be traced and if necessary propagated from requirements to design specifications and evaluated by both end-users and developers about their impact on the system. The BROOD approach, discussed in this article, aims to provide seamless traceability between requirements and system designs through the modelling of business rules and the successive transformations, using UML as the modelling framework Information Resources Management Association 2008 Article PeerReviewed Loucopoulos, P. and Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir (2008) BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design. Journal of Database Management, 19 (1). pp. 41-73. ISSN 1533-8010 (online) http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jdm.2008010103
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Loucopoulos, P.
Wan Kadir, Wan Mohd. Nasir
BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design
title BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design
title_full BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design
title_fullStr BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design
title_full_unstemmed BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design
title_short BROOD: business rules-driven object oriented design
title_sort brood: business rules-driven object oriented design
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
url http://eprints.utm.my/9633/
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