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Business rules are substantial citizens of requirement world. Similarly to software requirements they can be specified with the use of patterns. Business rules patterns increase the quality of a specification assuring business rules representation consistency and helping in revealing missing or overlapping rules. The aim of the paper is to propose a catalog of business rules patterns for structural rules. Such rules extend the definition of the domain expressing mandatory constraints. The catalog is constructed with two main assumptions in mind: it should be flexible enough to cover most of the business rules from that category, and it should not put too strong constraints on its users. The catalog has been developed as a result of literature overview including investigation of existing pattern catalogs. The usefulness of proposed catalog is then checked by a case study when the business rules patterns are used to express business rules from existing sources.
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This work was partially supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, Coordination and Support Action, Grant Agreement Number 316097, ENGINE - European research centre of Network intelliGence for INnovation Enhancement.
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Hnatkowska, B., Alvarez-Rodriguez, J.M. (2017). Business Rule Patterns Catalog for Structural Business Rules. In: Madeyski, L., Śmiałek, M., Hnatkowska, B., Huzar, Z. (eds) Software Engineering: Challenges and Solutions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 504. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43606-7_1
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