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Pro2Screen -- High-Fidelity-Prototyping of Mobile Enterprise Applications using Process Models

Authors:
Leo Fuhr
Matthias Jurisch
Stephan Böhm
Tobias Braumann
Bodo Igler

Keywords: Mobile Enterprise Application; BPMN; Process Model; Prototyping

Abstract:
Mobile Enterprise Applications are becoming more and more relevant to enterprises as the dissemination of smartphones has risen over the last decade. However, developing these applications is a very challenging and resource-intensive task. In this context, prototyping can lead to several benefits, including a better app usability. While Mobile Enterprise Applications are often used to support or carry out business processes, no low code mobile prototyping approach exists that is based on business process models and is adapted to the needs of non-developers. In this paper, we present the tool Pro2Screen that fills this gap. The tool uses a Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) model annotated with screen designs as a source for generating a prototype. The prototype is integrated with a business process execution engine that runs the business process. To demonstrate the effectiveness of Pro2Screen, we present a user study with experts from the field of Mobile Enterprise application development. The user study shows that the approach is able to tackle important aspects of prototyping in Mobile Enterprise Application development and enables practitioners with little or no coding experiences to develop prototypes that closely resemble functional aspects of a final product.

Pages: 127 to 133

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2018. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2018

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679