A Classification of Design Pattern Evolutions

Design for change is one of the important themes of design patterns. Each design pattern normally embeds some specific ways for future changes. Currently, such evolution information is typically documented in each design pattern implicitly. In this paper, we classify design pattern evolutions into two levels: the primitive-level and pattern-level evolutions. Each pattern-level evolution is represented by several primitive-level evolutions. In this way, we can describe the possible changes of each design pattern in terms of a number of pattern-level evolutions.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: JOT
• Authors: Jing Dong, Sheng Yang, Yongtao Sun
• Keywords: Design Pattern, Design Pattern Evolutions, JOT 2007, Pattern-level Evolutions