Title
A family of experiments to generate graphical user interfaces from BPMN models with stereotypes
Date Issued
01 March 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Panach J.I.
Rueda S.
Distante D.
Universitat de València
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Inc.
Abstract
Context: A significant gap separates Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) models representing processes from the design of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Objective: This paper reports on a family of experiments to validate a method to automatically generate GUIs from BPMN models using stereotypes complemented with UML class primitives, and transformation rules. Method: We conducted two replications (23 and 31 subjects respectively) in which we compared two methods to generate GUIs from BPMN models; one automatic (using Stereotyped BPMN models) and one manual (using Non-stereotyped BPMN models). The study focuses on comparing effort, accuracy, and satisfaction (in terms of perceived ease of use (PEOU), perceived usefulness (PU), and intention to use (ITU)). Results: Results yield significant differences for Effort, Accuracy, and ITU. Effort is lower for the Non-stereotyped method, while accuracy and ITU are higher for the Stereotyped one. If we consider only experimental units whose BPMN models show an accuracy over 75% compared to those of the experimenters’ solution, the difference in accuracy for the designed GUIs is even more significant; in contrast, differences for effort and ITU are reduced. Conclusions: The use of the Stereotyped method reduces the possibility of errors in the process of designing GUIs.
Volume
173
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras ingenierías y tecnologías Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85098461677
Source
Journal of Systems and Software
ISSN of the container
01641212
Sponsor(s)
The first author acknowledges support from the Ministry of Education of Peru with the National Scholarship and Educational Loan Program PRONABEC – President of the Republic Scholarship . This project also has the support of Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through project DATAME (ref: TIN2016-80811-P). We would like to thank the subjects for conducting the experiments.
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