Software design patterns and the abstractions they offer can support developers and
maintainers with program code comprehension. Yet manually-created pattern …

The volume of program source code created, reused, and maintained worldwide is rapidly
increasing, yet code comprehension remains a limiting productivity factor. For developers …

As the amount of software source code increases, manual approaches for documentation or
detection of software design patterns in source code become inefficient relative to the value …

Abstract Design patterns (DPs) are recognised as a good practice in software development.
However, the lack of appropriate documentation often hampers traceability, and their …

Occurrences of design patterns in existing code conveys important information to software
developers about the intent of the original author. Therefore, automated design pattern …

Identification of design patterns can deliver important information to designers. Therefore,
automated design pattern detection (DPD) is highly desirable when it comes to …

Abstract Design patterns are elegant and well tested solutions to recurrent software
development problems. Their extensive use in every day programming weaves valuable …

Software design patterns are standard solutions to common problems in software design
and architecture. Knowing that a particular module implements a design pattern is a shortcut …

Identification of design patterns can deliver important information to designers. Therefore,
automated design pattern detection (DPD) is highly desirable when it comes to …

Identification of design patterns can deliver important information to designers. Therefore,
automated design pattern detection (DPD) is highly desirable when it comes to …