Process model reuse support-the OPSIS approach

Abstract

Despite the efforts to devise enactable process modelling languages that are "non-technical" and very readable, the definition of enactable software process models still involves large amounts of detail and requires programming skills. Efforts to design new process modelling languages and tools will help to bring down the costs for process model development. However we believe that only a highly reuse based approach to software process engineering can provide the results that are needed. We rely on the taxonomy for software reuse techniques introduced by W. Krueger (1992) and we examine the differences/specificities which arise when applying these techniques to the software process model reuse domain. We illustrate this taxonomy using the reuse oriented features of the Opsis environment (D. Avrilionis et al., 1992).