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An empirical study on the evolution of design patterns

Lerina Aversano, Gerardo Canfora, Luigi Cerulo, Concettina Del Grosso, Massimiliano Di Penta

PDFDOI 10.1145/1287624.1287680dblp

Abstract

Design patterns are solutions to recurring design problems, conceived to increase benefits in terms of reuse, code quality and, above all, maintainability and resilence to changes. This paper presents results from an empirical study aimed at understanding the evolution of design patterns in three open source systems, namely JHotDraw, ArgoUML, and Eclipse-JDT. Specifically, the study analyzes how frequently patterns are modified, to what changes they undergo and what classes co-change with the patterns. Results show how patterns more suited to support the application purpose tend to change more frequently, and that different kind of changes have a different impact on co-changed classes and a different capability of making the system resilent to changes.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Aversano-al:FSE07,
  author    = {Lerina Aversano and
               Gerardo Canfora and
               Luigi Cerulo and
               Concettina Del Grosso and
               Massimiliano Di Penta},
  title     = {An empirical study on the evolution of design patterns},
  booktitle = {{ESEC/SIGSOFT} {FSE}},
  pages     = {385--394},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2007},
}

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