During software evolution, programmers devote most of their effort to the understanding of
the structure and behavior of the system. For Object-Oriented code, this might be particularly …

An approach to recover object oriented design patterns from design and code is presented.
The pattern recovery process is based on a multi-stage filtering strategy to avoid …

Design patterns are recognized, named solutions to common design problems. The use of
the most commonly referenced design patterns should promote adaptable and reusable …

Design patterns present good solutions to frequently occurring problems in object-oriented
software design. Thus their correct application in a system's design may significantly …

Abstract Changes to a software system during implementation and maintenance can cause
the architecture of a system to deviate from its documented architecture. If design documents …

In this paper we propose an approach for recovering structural design patterns from object-
oriented source code. The recovery process is organized in two phases. In the first phase …

Previous automated approaches to discovering design patterns in source code have
suffered from a need to enumerate static descriptions of structural and behavioral …

Software designs decay as systems, uses, and operational environments evolve. Decay can
involve the design patterns used to structure a system. Classes that participate in design …

Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying computer source code
constructs are disclosed. According to one method, computer source code is converted to a …

Object-oriented design patterns are an emergent technology: they are reusable micro-
architectures, high level building blocks. This paper presents a conservative approach …