Software systems have to be flexible in order to cope with evolving requirements. However, since it is impossible to predict with certainty what future requirements will emerge, i...
Design patterns are typically defined informally, albeit in a standard format, and have to be programmed by the software designer into each new application. Thus although patterns ...
Kung-Kiu Lau, Ioannis Ntalamagkas, Cuong M. Tran, ...
Recovering design patterns can enhance existing source code analysis tools by bringing program understanding to the design level. This paper presents a new, fully automated patter...
Extensibility and maintainability of software becomes more an issue as the complexity of the software development process rises. Design patterns in the sense of Gamma et al. [3] a...
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...