Reflections on How to Improve Software Process Patterns Capitalization and Reuse

Process Patterns is an emergent approach and a valuable means for capitalization, reuse and management of process experiences and best practices. In the context of software engineering process, many formalisms and languages have been proposed to describe software process patterns. This multiplicity makes capitalization and/or reuse of process patterns, difficult to be achieved. This paper presents a comparative study of process pattern formalisms proposed in the literature and addresses some reflections to deal with problems arising from this survey, in order to propose a new framework for process patterns’ capitalization and reuse. Keywords— Software process patterns, process patterns’ description languages, patterns’ unification ontology, pattern warehousing, pattern reuse, pattern capitalization, pattern mining.