Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Towards pattern-based design recovery
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
Supporting Design Patterns with Annotations
ECBS '06 Proceedings of the 13th Annual IEEE International Symposium and Workshop on Engineering of Computer Based Systems
Problem-Oriented Documentation of Design Patterns
FASE '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009
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Restructuring a program is a concept that aims at increasing the maintainability of a piece of code by changing its structure. The term refactoring is often used synonymously, especially when the observable behavior of a program should not change when transforming the structure of the software to a more sophisticated level, e.g. by using design patterns. Behaviour-conserving program transformations are difficult as the understanding of both the code to transform as well as the transformation is prerequisite for conserving the conduct of a transformed program. In addition, a transformation should only be executed if certain preconditions apply. To capture the semantic and syntactic details about a specific code fragment, it is proposed documenting them by adding machine-processable and at the same time human-readable annotations. These annotations contain explicit information and could be added to source code by tools evaluating the code, as well as by practitioners. With annotations, it may be possible checking preconditions for program transformations to execute, and gain information necessary for these transformations.