TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE BASE TO IMPROVE REUSABILITY OF DESIGN PATTERN

Cédric Bouhours, Hervé Leblanc, Christian Percebois

2007

Abstract

In this paper, we propose to take directly into account the knowledge of experts during a design review activity. Such activity requires an ability to analyze and to transform models, in particular to inject design patterns. Our approach consists in identifying model fragments which can be replaced by design patterns. We name these fragments “alternative models” because they solve the same problem as the pattern, but with a more complex or different structure than the pattern. In order to classify and to explain the design defects of this alternative models base, we propose the concept of strong point. A strong point is a key design feature which permits the pattern to resolve a problem most efficiently.

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Bouhours C., Leblanc H. and Percebois C. (2007). TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE BASE TO IMPROVE REUSABILITY OF DESIGN PATTERN . In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-06-7, pages 421-424. DOI: 10.5220/0001325104210424


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft07,
author={Cédric Bouhours and Hervé Leblanc and Christian Percebois},
title={TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE BASE TO IMPROVE REUSABILITY OF DESIGN PATTERN},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2007},
pages={421-424},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001325104210424},
isbn={978-989-8111-06-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE BASE TO IMPROVE REUSABILITY OF DESIGN PATTERN
SN - 978-989-8111-06-7
AU - Bouhours C.
AU - Leblanc H.
AU - Percebois C.
PY - 2007
SP - 421
EP - 424
DO - 10.5220/0001325104210424