Hi nevena You probably know that Design patterns are about intent, description and names. Their implementation is flexible and do not have to follow the book so I doubt that such a tool can exist in any language. Now if you look in my paper Software Architecture Extraction survey you will find a little section with pointers on such research which was really at the top in 1996-2000. Roel Wuyts and VUB logic meta programming used SOUL (a prolog unifying AST) to identify some DesignPatterns. You can contact andy Kellens and Johan Brichau to get a version of Soul, I'm sure that they have it on their disc somewhere. There was a version for Squeak and VisualWorks. It would be nice to get it running again and I'm sure that they had a lot of tests. Now if you are interested in a topic that is somehow related: one of the key challenge for today software development is how do we document in an executable way frameworks so that during the next 10 ot 15 years they can be maintained an extended even when the main developers left. Architecture Design P Extension point We have many excellent frameworks (Seaside, Athens, Fuel, ...) and we are asking ourselves the questions how to ensure their futures. stef
Hi,
Can anyone suggest me tool for automatic design patterns detection in Smalltalk?
Cheers, Nevena Milojkovic
ââââââââ Nevena Milojkovic Research assistant Software Composition Group Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics University of Bern
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