Design Patterns and Change Proneness: A Replication Using Proprietary C# Software

Authors:
Matt Gatrell;Steve Counsell;Tracy Hall
Affiliations:
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Venue:
WCRE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 16th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper documents a study of change in commercial, proprietary software and attempts to determine whether a relationship exists between a class’ propensity to change and its design context; more specifically: whether a class is a participant in a design pattern.We identify specific design patterns and their propensity for change. Design pattern participants were found to have a higher propensity to change than classes that did not participate in a design pattern, supporting an earlier study by Bieman et al.; some design patterns, such as the Adaptor, Factory Method and Singleton were found have a higher change propensity than others.