Automatic Design Pattern Detection

  • Authors:
  • Dirk Heuzeroth;Thomas Holl;Gustav Högström;Welf Löwe

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IWPC '03 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We detect design patterns in legacy code combining static and dynamic analyses. The analyses do not depend on coding or naming conventions. We classify potential pattern instances according to the evidence our analyses provide. We discuss our approach for the Observer, Composite, Mediator, Chain of Responsibility and Visitor Patterns. Our Java analysis tool analyzes Java programs. We evaluate our approach by applying the tool on itself and on the Java Swing Set Example using the Swing library.