CPMEv: A Tool for Service-based Configurable Process Evolution

Variability management in business processes domain is considered as a key of reuse. Research in this field focused mainly on variability modeling and resolution; neglecting the evolution aspect. The study of existing tools in this domain shows the lack of solutions integrating both the evolution management, and the change propagation with respect to the variability. The need for evolution emerges from the occurrences of new business requirements affecting the business processes. The evolution at business layer represented by configurable processes impacts the IT layer represented by services, and hence the alignment of configurable processes and configurable services must occur to maintain an integrated view of an organization. This can be reached by the concept of service-based configurable processes. This paper presents the CPMEv, a novel tool for evolution management of service-based configurable processes.