A Reuse-Oriented Process Component Representation Framework

Process Reuse, as well as Product Reuse, can reduce the cost and the time to deliver software when compared to independently developed products. This paper proposes a systematic representation framework for the description and classification of Process Component (PC), which is composed of three levels of information description, namely PC’s General Information Description, PC’s Specification Description and PC’s Data Description respectively. In order to facilitate the reuse and retrieval of PC, a facet-based PC classification scheme and an XML-based process modeling language (xPML) is presented. A reuse based process and project management system (P2MS) to support process improvement and control is also included in this paper.

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