Recognizing design patterns in C++ programs with integration of Columbus and Maisa

  • Authors:
  • Rudolf Ferenc;Juha Gustafsson;László Müller;Jukka Paakki

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Szeged. Aradi Vértanuk tere 1, H-6720 Szeged;University of Helsinki. P.O. Box 26, FIN-00014 Helsinki;University of Szeged. Aradi Vétranuk tere 1, H-6720 Szeged;University of Helsinki. P.O. Box 26, FIN-00014 Helsinki

  • Venue:
  • Acta Cybernetica
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A method for recognizing design patterns from C++ programs is presented. The method consists of two separate phases, analysis and reverse engineering of the C++ code, and architectural pattern matching over the reverse-engineered intermediate code representation. It is shown how the pattern recognition effect can be realized by integrating two specialized software tools, the reverse engineering framework Columbus and the architectural metrics analyzer Maisa. The method and the integrated power of the tool set are illustrated with small experiments.