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Process Discovery Glossary

The following list defines terms used in Process Discovery.

  • Event: An action recorded by the Agent on a user desktop. Examples are left clicks on a PDF in Acrobat, choosing an option from a context menu in Excel, pressing the Enter key, and so on.

  • Sequence: A set of events performed by a single user, ordered in time.

  • Task: A sequence that achieves a particular goal. The user might have indicated the start and end of the sequence that makes up the task. This term is used for the Agent and is similar to the Process instance.

  • Step: A discrete action executed to accomplish some task. Steps are detected by the Analyzer based on observed events. Those events are associated with that step.

  • Process: A set of steps, ordered in a directed graph, that accomplishes a task. Processes are detected by the Analyzer based on observed sequences. A process may or may not coincide with a task.

  • Process instance: An observed sequence that fits a process. This term is similar to the Task and used in the Analyzer and in the Process Discovery view of the Tungsten Analytics for RPA dashboard.