TECDP: a tool for extracting creational design patterns

Refactoring using design patterns leads to production of high quality and easily maintainable software. Without an acceptable level of design patterns in the development of software, it will not be able to meet the demands of software industry. Promoting design patterns requires effective support. In this paper we propose a tool to extract few creational design patterns by detecting Intent Aspects(IA's) from Java source code by applying reverse engineering algorithms. This helps in refactoring the code and thus improves the quality of software, in terms of reusability, flexibility and extendibility.