Architecture and Design Pattern Discovery Techniques - A Review

Architecture and design patterns, as demonstrated solutions to recurring problems, have proved practically important and useful in the process of software development. They have been extensively applied in industry. Discovering the instances of architecture and design patterns from the source code of software systems can assist the understanding of the systems and the process of re-engineering. More importantly, it also helps to trace back to the original architecture and design decisions, which are typically missing for legacy systems. This paper presents a review on current techniques and tools for discovering architecture and design patterns from object-oriented systems. We classify different approaches and analyze their results. We also discuss the disparity of the discovery results from different approaches and analyze possible reasons with some insight.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SERP
• Authors: Jing Dong, Yajing Zhao, Tu Peng
• Keywords: Architecture, Demonstrated Solutions, Design Patterns, SERP 2007, Software Engineering