TY  - CONF
A1  - Schneid, Konrad
A1  - Thöne, Sebastian
A1  - Kuchen, Herbert
T1  - Feature Development in BPMN-Based Process-Driven Applications
T2  - Business Process Management Forum / Hrsg. Dirk Fahland, Chiara Ghidini, Jörg Becker, Marlon Dumas
N2  - In the context of Continuous Software Engineering, it is acknowledged as best practice to develop new features on the mainline rather than on separate feature branches. Unfinished work is then usually prevented from going live by some kind of feature toggle. However, there is no concept of feature toggles for Process-Driven Applications (PDA) so far. PDAs are hybrid systems consisting not only of classical source code but also of a machine-interpretable business process model. This paper elaborates on a feature development approach that covers both the business process model and the accompanying source code artifacts of a PDA. The proposed solution, Toggles for Process-Driven Applications (T4PDA), equipped with an easy to use modeling tool extension, enables the developer to safely commit unfinished work on model and source code to the project’s mainline. It will be kept inactive during productive deployments unless the feature is finally released. During an AB/BA crossover design experiment, the T4PDA approach, including the provided tool support, showed higher software quality, a faster development process, and contented developers.
KW  - Feature-driven Development
KW  - Continuous Software Engineering
KW  - Process-Driven Application
Y1  - 2020
UR  - https://www.hb.fh-muenster.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12427
SN  - 978-3-030-58638-6
SN  - 1865-1348
SP  - 35
EP  - 50
PB  - Springer International Publishing
ER  -