Nowadays, software engineers have a great tendency to use design patterns (DPs) because
they are considered to have an important role in software engineering in the sense that they …

In this paper we propose an approach for recovering structural design patterns from object-
oriented source code. The recovery process is organized in two phases. In the first phase …

Abstract Design patterns are strategies for solving commonly occurring problems within a
given context in software design. In the process of re-engineering, detection of design …

Knowledge about design pattern (DP) instances improves program comprehension and
reengineering of object‐oriented systems. Effectively, it helps to discover developer design …

Recovering design pattern instances in a software system can help maintainers to
understand its design and implementation. In this paper we present a fully automated design …

The process of understanding and reusing software is often time-consuming, especially in
legacy code and open-source libraries. While some core code of open-source libraries may …

We present a method and tool (ePAD) for the detection of design pattern instances in source
code. The approach combines static analysis, based on visual language parsing and model …

Abstract Design patterns are general reusable solutions for recurrent occurring problems.
When software systems become more complicated due to the lack of documentation of …

This paper presents an approach for testing mobile applications using reverse engineering
and behavioural patterns. The goal of this research work is to ease the testing of mobile …

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 …