Abstract
The development process of web information systems nowadays improved a lot regarding effectiveness and tool support, but still contains many redundant steps for similar tasks. In order to overcome this, we use a model-driven approach to specify a web information system in an agile way and generate a full-fledged and runnable application from a set of models. The covered aspects of the system comprise data structure, page structure including view on data, page- and workflow within the system as well as overall application structure and user rights management. Appropriate tooling allows transforming these models to complete systems and thus gives us opportunity for a lightweight development process based on models. In this paper, we describe how we approach the page- and workflow aspect by using activity diagrams as part of the agile modeling approach MontiWIS. We give an overview of the defined syntax, describe the supported forms of action contents and finally explain how the behavior is realized in the generated application.
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Reiß, D., Rumpe, B. (2013). Using Lightweight Activity Diagrams for Modeling and Generation of Web Information Systems. In: Mayr, H.C., Kop, C., Liddle, S., Ginige, A. (eds) Information Systems: Methods, Models, and Applications. UNISCON 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 137. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38370-0_6
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