Distinguishing similar design pattern instances through temporal behavior analysis

• Main Authors: XIONG, Renhao, LO, David, LI, Bixin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Design Pattern Detection; Temporal Analysis; Reverse Engineering; Software Comprehension; Knowledge Representation; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5614; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6617/viewcontent/saner_2020.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Design patterns (DPs) encapsulate valuable design knowledge of object-oriented systems. Detecting DP instances helps to reveal the underlying rationale, thus facilitates the maintenance of legacy code. Resulting from the internal similarity of DPs, implementation variants, and missing roles, approac...