APSEE-Reuse: A Model to Assist the Reuse and Classification of Software Process Assets

This paper proposes a software process model based on the detailed description of software processes properties for the reuse and classification of their components. The proposed approach adopts the explicit separation of the main dimensions on process modeling. Also, the APSEE-Reuse system adopts a Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) approach to identify the similarity between the problem (the set of desired software process properties needed by a process designer) with process models stored in the case base. The main idea behind this model is related to the availability to store the multiple descriptions of process models, ranging from the abstract and generic process templates to enacted processes. So, a set of operators is available to extract different generic views from enacted process history. In addition, Policies (which constitute a special construct for the verification of static and dynamic processes properties) can be applied and reused on process models in any level.