Automated Business Processing

[bhargavdesai99]

Hi Tom ,

            Does Activiti provide support for Automated Business Processing ? If yes what are the features provided for the same ?




Thanks ,
Bhargav

[ronald_van_kuij]

Could you explain to me what automated business processing means to you?

[bhargavdesai99]

Hi Ronald ,

               ABPD(Automated Business Processing discovery) techniques start from event logs (audit trails, messages, transactions, databases and so forth) and try to discover patterns to fit a process model to the information obtained from the events. The underlying techniques are strong enough so that users don't have to specify a process model; it is created from scratch by pattern recognition. Moreover, it delivers information on bottlenecks, variances, root causes and the distribution of the process instances, thus enabling meaningful simulation. It's all about capturing what has happened in a real-life process.

[ronald_van_kuij]

Ahhhh, but now there is the 'discovery' added 😉 That explains it all.

Sorry, no that kind of tooling is not present, nor planned. Finding bottlenecks once implemented kan be done based on the history database, but requires manual queries

[nemesis1]

Hi,

I want to ask a question about process simulation and debug.



From your previous reply, I see there is no plan in the near future. Can I run my process without deployment to discover the errors. (design time; not run time)

Now which methods do activiti users utilize to check their process design?

Thanks.

[trademak]

Hi,

You could use the parser used in the Activiti Engine, but you could also deploy the process to an in-memory Activiti Engine to get the feedback.

Best regards,

[nemesis1]

Hi,

in memory test is it imperative to write unit-test. I don't want to write unit test. If there is another opportunity which designer can use without writing code or (with simple code), I will prefer it.

thanks.

[ronald_van_kuij]

Put the users behind a screen and have them use it?

Organizing that, processing the feedback etc is way more workthan writing a unittest.