Design pattern density is a metric that measures how much of an object-oriented design can be understood and represented as instances of design patterns. Expert developers have lo...
Design patterns encode proven solutions to recurring design problems. To use a design pattern properly, we need to 1) understand the design problem the pattern resolves, 2) recogn...
The role of design patterns in forward engineering is well known, also if it's not easy to use them, since large experience is needed. Different approaches and tools have bee...
Security design patterns have been proposed recently as a tool for the improvement of software security during the architecture and design phases. Since the apperance of this rese...
Abstract. Design patterns are widely-used software engineering abstractions which define guidelines for modeling common application scenarios. Ontology design patterns are the ext...