NDLI: Design recovery by automated search for structural design patterns in object-oriented software

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kramer, C. Prechelt, L.
Copyright Year	1996
Description	Author affiliation: Software Eng. Dept., Computec GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany (Kramer, C.)
Abstract	The object-oriented design community has recently begun to collect so-called design patterns: cliches plus hints to their recommended use in software construction. The structural design patterns Adapter, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, and Proxy represent packaged problem/context/solution/properties descriptions to common problems in object-oriented design. Localizing instances of these patterns in existing software produced without explicit use of patterns can improve the maintainability of software. In the authors' approach, called the Pat system, design information is extracted directly from C++ header files and stored in a repository. The patterns are expressed as PROLOG rules and the design information is translated into facts. A single PROLOG query is then used to search for all patterns. They examined four applications, including the popular class libraries zApp and LEDA, with Pat. With some restrictions all pattern instances are found; the precision is about 40 percent. Since manual filtering of the output is relatively easy, they consider Pat a useful tool for discovering or recovering design information.
Starting Page	208
Ending Page	215
File Size	758526
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0818676744
DOI	10.1109/WCRE.1996.558905
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1996-11-11
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Packaging Computer aided software engineering Software maintenance Software engineering Microarchitecture Context Terminology Software tools Bridges Reverse engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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