Abstract Design patterns are formalized best practices that address concerns related to high-
level structures for applications being developed. The efficient recovery of design pattern …

The evaluation of design pattern recovery techniques and tools is significant as numbers of
emergent techniques are presented and used in the past to recover patterns from source …

Design pattern recovery approaches are assisted by different tools which recognize patterns
from source code of legacy applications. Several tools are presented in related work, but …

One important issue concerning design patterns in reverse engineering is their detection to
support program comprehension, design recovery, system (re-) documentation, and …

In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly
occurring problem within a given context in software design. Design patterns reveal much …

While the merit of using design patterns is clear for forward engineering, we could also
benefit from design pattern recovery in program understanding and reverse engineering. In …

Software design patterns are a way of facilitating design reuse in object-oriented systems by
capturing recurring design practices. Lots of design patterns have been identified and …

Accurate recognition of design patterns from source code supports development-related
tasks such as program comprehension, maintenance, reverse engineering, and re …

Design patterns have been widely used for developing flexible, extensible and perceptible
applications to produce effective, reliable, verifiable and easily maintained software systems …

Program comprehension is one of the most difficult parts in computer science. At the latest,
the turn of the year 1999 has shown that program comprehension and tool supported …