Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Pattern-based reverse-engineering of design components
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Precise Visual Specification of Design Patterns
ECCOP '98 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Design Recovery by Automated Search for Structural Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Software
WCRE '96 Proceedings of the 3rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE '96)
Design Pattern Recovery in Object-Oriented Software
IWPC '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Program Comprehension
The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA
The Object Constraint Language: Getting Your Models Ready for MDA
A Role-Based Metamodeling Approach to Specifying Design Patterns
COMPSAC '03 Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Computer Software and Applications
A meta-modeling approach to specifying patterns
A meta-modeling approach to specifying patterns
An approach to precisely specifying the problem domain of design patterns
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Assessing conformance of pattern-based design in UML
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Southeast Regional Conference on XX
Formal specification of the variants and behavioural features of design patterns
Journal of Systems and Software
Design pattern evolutions in QVT
Software Quality Control
OTM'07 Proceedings of the 2007 OTM confederated international conference on On the move to meaningful internet systems - Volume Part I
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) - In memoriam, fault detection and localization, formal methods, modeling and design
An approach to automatically enforce object-oriented constraints
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Architectural Styles for Distributed Interoperability
Information Resources Management Journal
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This paper describes an approach to evaluating the structural conformance of a UML class diagram to a design pattern. A design pattern is specified in an extension of the UML that defines the pattern as a family of models. A pattern specification consists of a set of pattern roles where a role specifies the properties of a pattern participant. The approach uses a divide-and-conquer method to evaluate pattern conformance. In the approach a pattern and the model being evaluated are decomposed into blocks. Then, the model blocks are evaluated for conformance to the role blocks in the pattern. When all individual role blocks are satisfied by the model blocks, the pattern as a whole is considered to evaluate the entire conformance of the model. A major benefit of this approach is the support for variations of pattern realizations through the notion of pattern roles. We illustrate the approach using the Visitor pattern and a price calculator, and demonstrate a prototype tool that supports the approach.