Design Patterns: Abstraction and Reuse of Object-Oriented Design
ECOOP '93 Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
A Methodology for the Automated Introduction of Design Patterns
ICSM '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
An approach to precisely specifying the problem domain of design patterns
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Supporting Program Comprehension for Refactoring Operations with Annotations
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on New Trends in Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the fifth SoMeT_06
Representing and applying design patterns: what is the problem?
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Design pattern support based on the source code annotations and feature models
SOFSEM'12 Proceedings of the 38th international conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
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In order to retrieve, select and apply design patterns in a tool-supported way, we suggest to construct and document a problem-context pattern that reflects the essence of the problems that the design pattern is meant to solve. In our approach, software engineers can choose examples of source code or UML models from the special domains that they are experts in. We present a method that enables software engineers to describe the transformation from a problem-bearing source model to an appropriate solution model. Afterwards, the inverse of that transformation is applied to the UML solution model of the existing design pattern, resulting in an abstract problem-context pattern. This pattern can then be stored together with the solution pattern in a pattern library. The method is illustrated by deriving a problem-context pattern for the Observer design pattern.