Pattern-based design recovery of Java software

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Seemann;Jürgen Wolff von Gudenberg

  • Affiliations:
  • Lehrstuhl für Informatik II, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany;Lehrstuhl für Informatik II, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SIGSOFT '98/FSE-6 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper we show how to recover design information from Java source code. We take a pattern-based approach and proceed in a step by step manner deriving several layers of increasing abstraction. A compiler collects information about inheritance hierarchies and method call relations. It also looks for particular source text patterns coming from naming conventions or programming guidelines.The result of the compile phase is a graph acting as the starting graph of a graph grammar that describes our design recovery process. We define criteria for the automatic detection of associations and aggregations between classes, as well as for some of the popular design patterns such as composite or strategy.