Instantiation information of the design pattern which exists in the design model is always lost
in the program, so the comprehension and reversion of the program become very difficult …

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 …

Design patterns are widely recognized as important software development methods. Their
use as software understanding tools, though generally acknowledged, has been scarcely …

We present our approach to support program understanding by a tool that generates static
and dynamic analysis algorithms from design pattern specifications to detect design patterns …

Identifying design patterns from source code is one of the most promising methods for
improving software maintainability, reusing experience and facilitating software refactoring …

Design patterns are widely used by object oriented designers and developers for building
complex systems in object oriented programming languages such as Java. However …

Design patterns represent the best practices used by experienced java developers. Design
patterns abstract reusable object-oriented software designs which are solutions to general …

Recovering design patterns can enhance existing source code analysis tools by bringing
program understanding to the design level. This paper presents a new, fully automated …

The ever increasing number of platforms and languages available to software developers
means that the software industry is reaching high levels of complexity. Model Driven …

Software often needs to be modified to accommodate requirements changes during the
software lifecycle. To deal with several accidental requirements changes related to software …