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Information Systems Frontiers
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IWPSE '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution
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Information Systems - The 13th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*01)
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Using CBR for Automation of Software Design Patterns
ECCBR '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Advances in Case-Based Reasoning
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«UML» '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools
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Information and Software Technology
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Software Quality Control
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Information and Software Technology
Automatic recognition of design motifs using semantic conditions
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Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
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In reengineering legacy code it is frequently useful to introduce a design pattern in order to add clarity to the system and thus facilitate further program evolution. We show that this type of transformation can be automated in a pragmatic manner and present a methodology for the development of design pattern transformations. We address the issues of the definition of a starting point for the transformation, the decomposition of a pattern into mini-patterns and the development of corresponding mini-transformations that can introduce these mini-patterns to a program. We argue that behaviour preservation is a key issue and develop a rigorous argument of this for each mini-transformation we discover. The architecture of an existing software prototype is also discussed and the results of applying this methodology to develop a transformation for the Factory Method pattern are presented.