Change Patterns in Use: A Critical Evaluation
This addresses challenges for process designers in business process management, but it is incremental as it builds on prior work on change primitives.
The paper tackled the problem of understanding how process designers use change patterns for creating process models, finding that designers face little difficulty with simple control-flow but considerable problems with complex, nested models.
Process model quality has been an area of considerable research efforts. In this context, the correctness-by-construction principle of change patterns provides promising perspectives. However, using change patterns for model creation imposes a more structured way of modeling. While the process of process modeling (PPM) based on change primitives has been investigated, little is known about this process based on change patterns. To obtain a better understanding of the PPM when using change patterns, the arising challenges, and the subjective perceptions of process designers, we conduct an exploratory study. The results indicate that process designers face little problems as long as control-flow is simple, but have considerable problems with the usage of change patterns when complex, nested models have to be created. Finally, we outline how effective tool support for change patterns should be realized.