DocumentCode :
2662674
Title :
Representing design pattern interaction roles and variants
Author :
Loo, Keen Ngee ; Lee, Sai Peck
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Software Eng., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Volume :
6
fYear :
2010
fDate :
16-18 April 2010
Abstract :
Design patterns are known as a way for software designers to communicate about design. There are various descriptions, structures and behaviors on the solution for a design problem in a design pattern. However, there is not much visual aid on the internal workings of a design pattern in a visual design modeling tool. Currently, it is difficult to determine the pattern role and the variant of interaction groups of a design pattern in an UML diagram as the design pattern information is not represented in the interaction diagram. There is a need to have a consistent way to define the pattern role participating in a design pattern interaction and whether there is a variant in each interaction group. This paper proposes to extend the UML sequence diagram via UML profile to allow designers to define and visualize the pattern roles and the different types of interaction groups for a design pattern. An example of the approach is then applied to the observer design pattern. The benefit of the extension enables tool support on cataloging and retrieval of design patterns´ structural and behavioral information as well as variant in a visual design modeling tool.
Keywords :
Unified Modeling Language; cataloguing; data visualisation; information retrieval; object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; software engineering; UML profile; UML sequence diagram; behavioral information; cataloging; design pattern interaction representation; design pattern structural retrieval; interaction diagram; observer design pattern; visual design modeling tool; Computer languages; Computer science; Design methodology; Information retrieval; Information technology; Problem-solving; Software design; Software engineering; Unified modeling language; Visualization; Design Pattern; Interaction Role; UML Profile;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6347-3
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCET.2010.5486125
Filename :
5486125
Link To Document :
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