Context. Although research in software engineering largely seeks to improve the practices
and products of software development, many practices are based upon codification of expert …

CONTEXT: Although the concept of the software design pattern is well-established, there is
relatively little empirical knowledge about the patterns that experienced users consider to be …

Abstract Design patterns are widely used by software developers to build complex systems.
Hence, they have been investigated by many researchers in recent decades. This leads to …

Context Software patterns encapsulate expert knowledge for constructing successful
solutions to recurring problems. Although a large collection of software patterns is available …

The field of software patterns has seen an explosion in interest in the last three years. Work
to date has been on the recognition, cataloging, and finding of patterns with little attention to …

A comprehensive SMS on the design patterns to identify the related topics and detect trends
and gaps. There are six main topics in the field of design patterns. Developing and Mining …

Abstract Design patterns help in the creative act of designing, implementing, and
documenting software systems. They have become an important part of the vocabulary of …

We study the impact of design patterns on quality attributes in the context of software
maintenance and evolution. We show that, contrary to popular beliefs, design patterns in …

The tutorial gives an overview of state-of-the-art design patterns approaches, including
pattern catalogs and framework patterns. A selection of useful patterns is discussed in detail …

The impact of design patterns on quality attributes has been extensively evaluated in studies
with different perspectives, objectives, metrics, and quality attributes, leading to contradictive …