Design Patterns: Current Challenges, Trends, and Research Directions

Design patterns solve recurring design problems. We can classify the literature on design patterns into two main categories: 1) Pattern Application, i.e., applying design patterns on a design model which is a forward engineering approach, and 2) Pattern Detection and Identification, i.e, extracting applied design patterns from a given source code which is a reverse engineering approach. With the above classification in mind, this report intends to explore the current challenges behind the design patterns and related tools. Design Patterns: Current Challenges, Trends and Research Directions Alireza Rouhi and Bahman Zamani Department of Software Engineering University of Isfahan Isfahan, Iran. {rouhi, zamani}@eng.ui.ac.ir Abstract: Design patterns solve recurring design problems. We can classify the literature on design patterns into two main categories: 1) Pattern Application, i.e., applying design patterns on a design model which is a forward engineering approach, and 2) Pattern Detection and Identification, i.e, extracting applied design patterns from a given source code which is a reverse engineering approach. With the above classification in mind, this report intends to explore the current challenges behind the design patterns and related tools. Design patterns solve recurring design problems. We can classify the literature on design patterns into two main categories: 1) Pattern Application, i.e., applying design patterns on a design model which is a forward engineering approach, and 2) Pattern Detection and Identification, i.e, extracting applied design patterns from a given source code which is a reverse engineering approach. With the above classification in mind, this report intends to explore the current challenges behind the design patterns and related tools.

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