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| <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">A rule architect has to develop with the business
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| users what will be the <a class="elementLink"
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| href="./../../abrd/guidances/termdefinitions/rule_life_cycle_B982650C.html" guid="_s5iCsFH7Edy72tV0zV7--Q">rule life
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| cycle</a>. There are a lot of different possibilities for defining this rule life cycle. For the implementation point
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| of view we need to define a</span> <span lang="EN"
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">“Status” meta property attached
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| to a rule element.</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">The following states
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| have been identified as a simple but still efficient life cycle:</span>
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| style="mso-list: Ignore">·<span
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| <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">New</span></b><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">: the rule is created, and can be modified by its
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| owner</span>
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| <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Defined</span></b><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">: the rule has been defined and is currently in unit
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| test</span>
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| </p>
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| <span
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| style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"><span
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| style="mso-list: Ignore">·<span
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| style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span>
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| <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Rejected</span></b><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">: the rule has been tested un-successfully</span>
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| style="mso-list: Ignore">·<span
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| <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Validated</span></b><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">: the rule has been tested successfully and can be
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| deployed</span>
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| </p>
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Promoted</span></b><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">: the rule has been part of a rule set deployed on
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| production platform</span>
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| </p>
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| <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">Retired</span></b><span
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| style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial">: the rule was deployed or validated on a production
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| platform but no more active.</span>
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| <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 3pt 0cm">
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| In the state diagram below the following abbreviations are used:
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| Rule Writer or Rule Author is the end user of the BRMS application
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| <li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt">
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| Rule Admin is an administrator of the rule set.
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| Rule Tester can be an automatic process or a human.
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| <img height="382" alt="" src="resources/rule_life_cycle.gif" width="409" />
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