Óscar Pastor

Fáber D. Giraldo, Sergio España, Óscar Pastor

Quality is an implicit property of models and modelling languages by their condition of engineering artifacts. However, the quality property is affected by the diversity of conceptions around the model-driven paradigm. In this document is presented a report of quality issues on modelling languages and models. These issues result from an analysis about quality evidences obtained from industrial and academic/scientific contexts.

Sergio España, Arturo González, Óscar Pastor et al.

This report describes and illustrates several modelling techniques proposed by Communication Analysis; namely Communicative Event Diagram, Message Structures and Event Specification Templates. The Communicative Event Diagram is a business process modelling technique that adopts a communicational perspective by focusing on communicative interactions when describing the organizational work practice, instead of focusing on physical activities1; at this abstraction level, we refer to business activities as communicative events. Message Structures is a technique based on structured text that allows specifying the messages associated to communicative events. Event Specification Templates are a means to organise the requirements concerning a communicative event. This report can be useful to analysts and business process modellers in general, since, according to our industrial experience, it is possible to apply many Communication Analysis concepts, guidelines and criteria to other business process modelling notations such as BPMN. Also, Message Structures can complement business process models created with other notations different than Communicative Event Diagram.