Introducing Business Language Driven Development

TL;DR

This paper introduces Business Language Driven Development (BLDD), a method that extends Behavior-Driven Development by linking business process models directly to source code, enhancing requirement verification in enterprise systems.

Contribution

BLDD extends BDD by integrating business process models with source code, combining graphical and textual requirement specifications for improved software certification.

Findings

Connects business process models to source code.

Maintains expressiveness of textual descriptions.

Enhances requirement verification in enterprise systems.

Abstract

A classical problem in Software Engineering is how to certify that every system requirement is correctly implemented by source code. This problem, albeit well studied, can still be considered an open one, given the problems faced by software development organizations. Trying to solve this problem, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a specification technique that automatically certifies that all functional requirements are treated properly by source code, through the connection of the textual description of these requirements to automated tests. However, in some areas, such as Enterprise Information Systems, requirements are identified by Business Process Modeling - which uses graphical notations of the underlying business processes. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present Business Language Driven Development (BLDD), a method that aims to extend BDD, by connecting business process models directly to source code, while keeping the expressiveness of text descriptions when they are better fitted than graphical artifacts.