On the computer aided introduction of design patterns into object-oriented systems

This article is an introduction to design patterns. Patterns are recent software engineering problem-solving discipline that emerged from the object-oriented community. The primary purpose of the pattern is communicating design insights and making patterns coherent and easier to understand. On the basis of a review of existing frameworks and the authors own experiences building visualization software, they present a series of design patterns for the domain of information visualization. The authors discuss the structure, factors use, and association of patterns bridge of data representation, graphics, and interaction.

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Workshop on design patterns for concurrent, parallel, and distributed object-oriented systems

Addendum to the proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications (Addendum) - OOPSLA '95 ◽

10.1145/260094.260266 ◽

1995 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dennis Kafura ◽

Greg Lavender ◽

Doug Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Design Patterns ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Distributed Object ◽

Object Oriented Systems

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Modeling an Object-Oriented Accounting System with Computer-Aided Software Engineering

Journal of Information Systems ◽

10.2308/jis.2008.22.2.123 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 123-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alan S. Levitan ◽

Jian Guan ◽

Andrew T. Cobb

Keyword(s):

Software Engineering ◽

Unified Modeling Language ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Modeling Language ◽

Accounting System ◽

Sequence Diagrams ◽

Unified Modeling ◽

Computer Aided ◽

Object Oriented Systems ◽

Computer Aided Software Engineering

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this case is, first, to provide students with an experience in systems modeling, using facts gathered through interviews with employees who may not be skilled in presenting their responsibilities in a systematic, logical, sequential manner. Second, students will gain actual hands-on experience learning and using a leading modeling language, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), through a popular Computer-Aided Software Engineering (C.A.S.E.) tool. Finally, the students will be using those interview facts to model an object-oriented system for processing cash receipts. In that effort, they will learn and apply the unique documentation techniques used in analyzing and designing object-oriented systems with design features such as use cases, class diagrams with inheritance, and sequence diagrams.

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Workshop on design patterns for concurrent, parallel, and distributed object-oriented systems

ACM SIGPLAN OOPS Messenger ◽

10.1145/260111.260266 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 128-131 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dennis Kafura ◽

Greg Lavender ◽

Doug Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Design Patterns ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Distributed Object ◽

Object Oriented Systems

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Formalising Design Patterns as Model Transformations

Design Pattern Formalization Techniques ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-219-0.ch008 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 156-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Kevin Lano

Keyword(s):

Design Patterns ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Model Transformations ◽

Object Oriented Systems ◽

Uml Models

This chapter describes techniques for the verification of refactorings or transformations of UML models which introduce Design patterns. The techniques use a semantics of object-oriented systems defined by the object calculus (Fiadeiro & Maibaum, 1991; Lano, 1998), and the pattern transformations are proved to be refinements using this semantics.

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Searching for Refactoring Opportunities to apply the Strategy Pattern

10.5753/sbsi.2014.6127 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Guinther de B. Pauli ◽

Eduardo K. Piveta

Keyword(s):

Design Patterns ◽

Large Scale ◽

Source Code ◽

Object Oriented ◽

Abstract Syntax ◽

Heuristic Function ◽

Manual Examination ◽

Object Oriented Systems ◽

Abstract Syntax Trees ◽

Strategy Pattern

It is difficult to maintain and to adapt poorly written code presenting shortcomings in its structure. Refactoring techniques are used to improve thecode and the structure of applications, making them better and easier to modify. Design patterns are reusable solutions used in similar problems in object-oriented systems, so there is no need to recreate the solutions. Applying design patterns in the context of refactoring in a corrective way becomes a desired activity in the life cycle of a specific software system. However, in large-scale projects, the manual examination of artefacts to find problems and opportunities to apply a design pattern is a hard task. In this context, wepresent a metric-based heuristic function to detect where the Strategy designpattern can be applied in a given project. To evaluate the heuristic functionand its results we have also built a tool to show the results. This tool canexamine source code using ASTs (Abstract Syntax Trees), searching for opportunities to apply the Strategy pattern, indicating the exact location in the source code where the pattern is suggested, also showing some evidences usedin the detection.

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