Program comprehension is an important activity in software maintenance, as software must
be sufficiently understood before it can be properly modified. The study of a program's …

Design patterns are important in object-oriented programming because they offer design
motifs, elegant solutions to recurrent design problems, which improve the quality of software …

A discontinuity exists between object-oriented modeling and programming languages. This
discontinuity arises from ambiguous concepts in modeling languages and a lack of …

We introduce P-MARt, a repository of pattern-like micro-architetcures. The purpose of P-
MARt is to serve as baseline to assess the precision and recall of pattern identification tools …

Traditional debugging and stepping execution trace are well-accepted techniques to
understand deep internals about a program. However in many cases navigating the stack …

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 …

Developers use class diagrams to describe the architecture of their programs intensively.
Class diagrams represent the structure and global behaviour of programs. They show the …

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 offer design motifs, solutions to object‐oriented design problems.
Design motifs lead to well‐structured designs and thus are believed to ease software …

We introduce the Ptidej project and its tool suite to evaluate and to enhance software quality
by promoting patterns. First, we summarise the components of the tool suite and describe its …