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Market forces and end-user programming for mission-critical systems

Published: 21 May 2005 Publication History

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The abaXX Workflow Engine (WFE) is a J2EE COTS software component, part of a larger suite for building web-based systems. Although these systems are usually mission-critical (the customers often being financial institutions), a visual tool that could be used for end-user programming, called the Process Modeler, proved important for marketing the WFE and the component suite in general. The promise of end-user programming (EUP), however, never materialized. This article sketches the evolution of the WFE. It de-scribes why the EUP capabilities were required, why they were never really used in practice, and how to reconcile these two facts.

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WEUSE I: Proceedings of the first workshop on End-user software engineering
May 2005
65 pages
ISBN:1595931317
DOI:10.1145/1083231
  • cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
    ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 30, Issue 4
    July 2005
    1514 pages
    ISSN:0163-5948
    DOI:10.1145/1082983
    Issue’s Table of Contents
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Published: 21 May 2005

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  1. marketing requirements
  2. quality assurance
  3. workflow engine
  4. workflow modeler

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