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Business Rules in Software Development

Abbas, Nasim ; Fayyaz, Faheem and Naeem, Muhammad (2008)
Department of Informatics
Abstract
Business rules represent policies, procedures and constraints regarding how an enterprise
conducts its business. BR(s) often focus on access control issues and may consist of business
calculation and are evidently important for organizations. Their value has also been
recognized within the information system (IS) domain, mostly because of their ability to make
applications flexible and amendable to change. Problematic issues includes: the quality of
software engineering projects often suffers due to the large gap between the way stakeholders
present their requirements and system analysts capture and express those requirements and
information systems often fail because their requirements are poorly defined.
This thesis is devoted to the... (More)
Business rules represent policies, procedures and constraints regarding how an enterprise
conducts its business. BR(s) often focus on access control issues and may consist of business
calculation and are evidently important for organizations. Their value has also been
recognized within the information system (IS) domain, mostly because of their ability to make
applications flexible and amendable to change. Problematic issues includes: the quality of
software engineering projects often suffers due to the large gap between the way stakeholders
present their requirements and system analysts capture and express those requirements and
information systems often fail because their requirements are poorly defined.
This thesis is devoted to the study of business rules in software development life cycle.
Software development life cycle contains different phases but this study concentrates on how
system analysts work with business rules in the requirement specification phase and which
approach they are using either BR-oriented or non BR-oriented? This study is based on the
information collected by using interviews with system analysts. Various articles and books on
business rules are also used. To validate our empirical findings we have compared them with
our theoretical baseline. As a result we have found that most of the system analysts work with
both BR-oriented and non BR-oriented approaches but BR-oriented approach makes the
information system successful as well as flexible. (Less)
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author
Abbas, Nasim ; Fayyaz, Faheem and Naeem, Muhammad
supervisor
organization
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
requirement specification, SDLC, Business rules, Non BR-Approach, BR-Approach, Informatics, systems theory, Informatik, systemteori
language
English
id
1335459
date added to LUP
2008-11-23 00:00:00
date last changed
2010-08-03 10:52:01
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  abstract     = {{Business rules represent policies, procedures and constraints regarding how an enterprise
conducts its business. BR(s) often focus on access control issues and may consist of business
calculation and are evidently important for organizations. Their value has also been
recognized within the information system (IS) domain, mostly because of their ability to make
applications flexible and amendable to change. Problematic issues includes: the quality of
software engineering projects often suffers due to the large gap between the way stakeholders
present their requirements and system analysts capture and express those requirements and
information systems often fail because their requirements are poorly defined.
This thesis is devoted to the study of business rules in software development life cycle.
Software development life cycle contains different phases but this study concentrates on how
system analysts work with business rules in the requirement specification phase and which
approach they are using either BR-oriented or non BR-oriented? This study is based on the
information collected by using interviews with system analysts. Various articles and books on
business rules are also used. To validate our empirical findings we have compared them with
our theoretical baseline. As a result we have found that most of the system analysts work with
both BR-oriented and non BR-oriented approaches but BR-oriented approach makes the
information system successful as well as flexible.}},
  author       = {{Abbas, Nasim and Fayyaz, Faheem and Naeem, Muhammad}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Business Rules in Software Development}},
  year         = {{2008}},
}