Digital Natives... "Ouille, ca me fait penser a quelqu'un..." http://bit.ly/3OIvFO

Bruno Rives: Eblouissant... "Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo." http://bit.ly/2UJKFm

La renaissance de la Porsche 928... http://bit.ly/3l1uE0

Camel Market in Pushkar Mela - http://bit.ly/2RmybI

RT @Stiliweb: http://twitpic.com/nobr2 - Google Streetview car visits Overijse (Belgium)

IBM OmniFind has a well-defined Java API for ease of deployment into existing enterprise applications. http://bit.ly/3C3STS

AC Milan-Real Madrid. Mireille says 2-4 I say 2-2

Having fun with the 100 Ridiculously Questionable T-Shirts http://bit.ly/yj4GY

Things you don't say to your wife... http://bit.ly/45fDy2

Beau travail ! RT @mulkers: We're ready for Halloween... http://bit.ly/2O6a6t

Today we visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. There we saw many elephants : http://bit.ly/17iEQ2

This morning (Oct 28, 2009) I attended a iLog Business Rules Management System (BRMS) Demo and it gave me an idea.

iLog has a great tool for testing rules. It allows to design test cases using MS Excell that are sent to the Rules Engine in order to determine if a rule set provides the expected decision.

In the past I ave been involved with the difficult exercice of generating test data for Business Processes. Using the iLog testing tool, this could be realized like this :

1. Before the process is designed, use the BRMS to design the process vocabulary.

2. Create some basic rules which from process inputs produce process outputs. In fact these rules simulate the process.

3. Create the rules test cases such that the rule responds the right process output from a given process input. In fact the rules set must simulates the process for the foreseen test cases.

4. Communicate the rules and their test cases to the Process developpers so they can design and build the process using the test cases.

5. For automating the tests, at the end of the process (or at intervals if the process is composed of serveral parts), send the process inputs to the business rules and ask the rules engine to compare process results with the expected process results (this requires a comparison rule which allows to determine of two result sets are considered equivalent).

To illustrate this, I used the opportunity to test gliffy to make a diagram:


http://www.gliffy.com/publish/1872505/

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Last twit was to test the del.icio.us / Twitter integration...

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Testing Business Processes with iLog Business Rules (Illustrated with Gliffy) http://bit.ly/JMQLH

Discussion: The Enterprise Architecture Network | LinkedIn "Linking Information Systems to Business Performance" http://bit.ly/4GdUxV

Had a nice lunch with an ex-colleague ;-)

I have installed Polaris....http://bit.ly/20giy

@Bleebot The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes

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It's autumn in Tombeek : http://bit.ly/3fRlZ

Vlerick now 10th MBA School in the world ! http://bit.ly/2BU2kp

I lauched a linked in group and I now see them all connecting with each other. Funny. ..

Just lost a long text I had written on an internal IBM blog... GRRR

@roulive Merci, je suis super impatient de voir ca... C'est direct ou faut attendre ?