Intelligent Support for Retrieval and Synthesis of Patterns for Object-Oriented Design

Several decades of software engineering research confirm that effective reuse is the only realistic approach to meeting the ever-increasing demands on the software industry. Over the last few years, object-oriented paradigm has emerged as the natural foundational technology for reuse approaches, leading to the development of a number of reusable s at different levels of abstraction and granularity. This research focuses on artifacts at one level: 'pattems'. Patterns are groups of objects with stereotypical properties and responsibilities that can be applied by analogy to different domains. In this paper, we present a methodology for automating design of object-oriented systems based on intelligent retrieval and synthesis of reusable patterns. The methodology itself has an object-oriented flavor. It uses a set of techniques and rules aided by heuristics from natural language processing, automated reasoning and learning that are activated, as needed. Effectiveness of the metho...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ER
• Authors: Sandeep Purao, Veda C. Storey
• Keywords: Database, Engineering Research Confirm, ER 1997, Natural Foundational Technology, Object-oriented