BPMN∗-A notation for representation of variability in business process towards supporting business process line modeling

Abstract

This paper proposes an extension for the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), named BPMN∗, that based on the elements of the feature model (FM), commonly used to represent variability, intends to represent variability in Business Processes Line (BPL). This notation is evaluated by means of an empirical study whose main objective is to compare it with other notation named variant-rich BPMN (vrBPMN) regarding the productivity and correctness of the business process model template (BPMT), which is one of the artifacts that compose a BPL. From the results it was possible to observe that the proposed notation allows the elaboration of BPMT with less errors, although modeling time was kept almost the same.