Verification capabilities for business rules management in the Dutch governmental context

The management of business decisions and business logic play a critical role in an organization's daily activities. As laws, regulations and/or internal policies need to be translated into logically correct business decisions and business logic it is essential to govern and guard the logical soundness of the business decisions and business logic specified. This capability is often referred to as verification. However, the current knowledge base regarding verification as a capability is not yet researched in relation to the new Decision Model and Notation standard, developed by the Object Management Group to model and execute decisions and underlying business logic. The purpose of this paper is to identify which verification capabilities are applied in the Dutch governmental context. To identify the different verification capabilities, we conducted a three-round focus group, which led to a collection of 28 verification capabilities. Furthermore, we aimed to adequately specify each of those capabilities by demonstrating them with real-life case examples. The identified verification capabilities provide a framework to take into account when designing business rules management solutions.