Process Reuse Architecture

This paper proposes a systematic way to organize and describe processes, in order to reuse them. To achieve that, a process reuse architecture has been developed. This architecture is based on processes and their types (standard, pattern, usual and solution), on process frameworks, based on the theory of application framework and on different kinds of process modeling languages, which are specified in XML, to describe each type of process. In order to facilitate the reuse and retrieval of information, we use facets, reuse guidelines, as well a process patterns taxonomy. Some processes of requirements engineering have been analyzed so that it was possible to create a process framework and a web tool has been developed to enable a case study to validate the proposed architecture.