Object-oriented frameworks are a powerful reuse technique but they are also very complex and difficult to design. Framework’s design aims at separating the invariant aspects acr...
This paper presents a graph transformation based approach to design pattern evolution. An evolution of a design pattern includes modifications of pattern elements, such as classes...
Design patterns are widely recognized as important software development methods. Their use as software understanding tools, though generally acknowledged has been scarcely explore...
Many research studies adopt manually selected patterns for semantic relation extraction. However, manually identifying and discovering patterns is time consuming and it is difficu...
Wenbo Wang, Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, Vic...
Abstract. Design patterns provide solutions to recurring design problems in object-oriented programming. Design patterns typically crosscut class boundaries so previous work aimed ...