XPMA Modeler

CASE done right!

Computer Aided Software Engineering tool implementing the XPM combined model and providing additional convenient read-only views of the resulting model (e.g. Entity Relationship Diagram, Use Case Diagram). XPMA CASE produces input for XPMA.

FIXME Screen sizes table all UIs are touch-friendly and HW-keyboard-input-friendly mobile ("square" smartphones, ...); NO tiny devices like watches or wearables tablet (tablets, netbooks, ...) desktop (notebooks, desktops, ...) FIXME development strategy: code and architecture must be MVP (with few explicit exceptions like threading in Redis instead of processes) - everything which can be done later manually should be annotated with "FIXME do automatically" and left for the time being with a stub forcing one to do it manually FIXME use Android auto user-feedback: http://www.acra.ch/

Functional requirements

Minimal Viable Product

• multiplatform (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
• support full XPM 2.0
  • supports full CSDDM 2.0
  • supports the BPMN 2.0 subset defined in the XPM 2.0 specification
• when adding new records, default values of all properties will be sane and handy (should consider also surrounding data scheme)
  • the goal is to minimize number of needed changes
• export to a BPMN 2.0 compatible format with extensions
  • make sure BPMN 2.0 implementations will ignore the extensions
• import the BPMN 2.0 model format
• load XPM engine profile (i.e. info about capabilities of the particular XPM engine)
  • CSV? or rather some tree format like XML/JSON/...?
• interactive hints
  • when writing already known IDs (e.g. record names, process names)
• switching between overall views based on tags
  • all-view
  • business view
  • ...
• partial support for live view of the generated system at the selected point with the selected data
  • needed for smooth testing experience
  • ekam might be useful (either directly or just as an inspiration)

Next Generation Version

• maybe a different implementation technology
• hints and warnings and error messages based on consistency rules
• supports read-only views
  • read-only, because these models do not support all features of XPM 2.0
    • e.g. adding a new attribute to the ERD view would make it "hidden", because
      • there is no connection to the rest of the model (e.g. not used in any task)
      • it's by default no_rw
  • Use Case Diagram
  • ERD
    • click-through on ERD gets one to the record definition and/or references
• support for diff
  • maybe different levels (not just a precise diff)
  • process similarity
    • graph & loop similarity
    • task similarity
  • data similarity
    • structural similarity (ignore all properties - names, constr, etc.)
  • precise diff