123-04-20

Software patterns – project vision

Ivica Pađen

223-04-20

Our team

•Mälardalen University–Shaibal Barua (TL)–Antonio Moreno Borras–Joanne Chevalier

•FER–Marko Vitas (TL)–Stipe Grbić–Jasenko Ramljak–Ivica Pađen

•Paderborn University–Jan Schmalor (PL)–Andre Backofen–Adnan Biser–Dennis Nobel–Marie Christin Platenius

•Project supervisors:–Markus von Detten–Dietrich Travkin

323-04-20

Design patterns

•What are design patterns?–What is their purpose?–Why should we use them?

•How are they represented?

•What about tool support?

423-04-20

Current project

•Ongoing project by students at Paderborn

•Goal is to create pattern-oriented software development environment (Eclipse plugin)

–Graphical language that is capable of formally specifying design patterns–Tools for support to the semi-automatic application of design patterns –Detection of software patterns–Visualization of application of design patterns

523-04-20

Our task

•Organization of specified design patterns

•Development of a tool that enables their manipulation

–Description–Managing–Categorization–Comparison–Relations–Search

623-04-20

Our task

•Tools that will be used:–Eclipse IDE (Java programming language)–Eclipse Modelling Framework–JUnit testing tools–EclEMMA – test coverage–LaTeX – documentation

723-04-20

Final result

•Our work:–Catalog of design patterns as an Eclipse plugin

•Project as whole:–Powerful tools with widespread usage in software development