Rapid Development of Process Modeling Tools

We present an approach for the rapid development and evolution of visual environments for modelling distributed software engineering processes. The definition of the process modeling language takes into account the requirements of the customer that directly participates in the development process. The development process is supported by the VLDesk, an integrated set of grammar-based tools for the definition and automatic generation of visual environments. The produced visual environment enables an organization to quickly design distributed process models and generate the corresponding XML code that specifies the activities with its elements, including actors and artifacts produced and the transitions expressed in the form of event-condition-action rules. In this way the designed process model can be easily instantiated for a specific project and enacted by any workflow engine supporting a programmable event-condition-action paradigm.