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The Business Rules Community's
Business Rules Journal (BRJ) Update
February, 2006 Vol 7 No. 2
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In this issue of your periodic Business Rules Journal Update...
1. Changing the Rules of Testing ~ Testing Strategies for the
Production Maintenance of Rapidly Evolving Business Rules Systems,
by Pierre Berlandier
2. Premise & Conclusion: How Rules and Processes
Relate ~ Part 5. Scripts -- Rule-Friendly Process Models,
by Ronald G. Ross
3. In Process: Best Practices of Process Management: The Top Ten
Principles (Part 2), by Roger T. Burlton
4. Zen & the Art of Rules: Adding Chrome to an Enterprise,
by Mark Myers
5. SBVR Speaks: How SBVR Supports the Business Rules Approach
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http://www.brcommunity.com1. Changing the Rules of Testing ~ Testing Strategies for the
Production Maintenance of Rapidly Evolving Business Rules Systems,
by Pierre Berlandier
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Maintaining an adequate level of quality assurance for applications with a high rate of business rules turnover presents a challenge for many IT departments: the test cases require constant update from business experts to adjust the expected results to the rule changes.
Consequently, only a limited number of test cases can usually be maintained. In this month's feature, Pierre Berlandier proposes a simple but efficient approach, called 'delta testing', that by-passes the need for maintaining expected results, using instead the set of rules currently in production as the reference for testing the new set of rules. This approach allows the development of more test cases with less involvement from the business experts, thus providing a more thorough and less expensive QA strategy.
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b270.html2. Premise & Conclusion: How Rules and Processes Relate ~
Part 5. Scripts -- Rule-Friendly Process Models,
by Ronald G. Ross
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When the rules are taken out of any process in an information/knowledge system, the result is a thin process. 'Thin' means that the process prescribes only the necessary series of steps to accomplish the desired work result. Excluded are all the rules -- and all the event detection and error handling when violations of rules occur. In this month's column, the fifth of a 6-part series (excerpted from the just-released second edition of Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge), Ron Ross introduces scripts, rule-oriented process models for designing information/knowledge systems. Scripts achieve many long-sought goals, including throw-away procedures and a crucial form of man/machine interoperability. They also introduce rule-based re-use, a powerful new idea.
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http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b271.html3. In Process: Best Practices of Process Management: The Top Ten
Principles (Part 2), by Roger T. Burlton ...............................................................
Years of successful and not-so-successful process management experience have led to a set of best practices -- a number of fundamental principles that must be honored in order to optimize returns to the company, the delivery of business results to customers, and to satisfy the needs of the organization’s other stakeholders.
In this series, Roger Burlton outlines the ten principles that underlie the methods of business process operation and change. In this month's column, he covers the second principle.
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http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b273.html4. Zen & the Art of Rules: Adding Chrome to an Enterprise,
by Mark Myers
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One of the addicting and more expensive habits with owning a motorcycle is the continual and time-consuming job of adding chrome and gadgets. Most serious riders have a list of accessories that have been through a rigid inspection and prioritization process based on need and funds available. Implementing Enterprise Architecture does not have to be an all-or-nothing decision -- it is like putting accessories on a motorcycle: you pick the part that will deliver the most value to you (the Enterprise). In this month's column, Mark Myers presents an 'Enterprise Architecture Accessory List.'
to read more, visit:
http://www.BRCommunity.com/a2006/b272.html5. SBVR Speaks: How SBVR Supports the Business Rules Approach ...............................................................
In September 2005, the Object Management Group (OMG) approved the "Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules" (SBVR) to become a final adopted specification of the OMG. In this month's installment of "SBVR Speaks (for Itself)" we continue our exploration of SBVR with a look at how it supports the business rules approach.
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