Tools for automatic recognition of Design Patterns
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 email: nevena@iam.unibe.ch office phone: +41 (0)31 511 7639 webpage: http://scg.unibe.ch/staff/Milojkovic
Nevena Milojkovic wrote
Can anyone suggest me tool for automatic design patterns detection in Smalltalk?
The rewrite tool in the Refactoring Browser has the potential, but I strongly suspect the problem is intractable. By the way, the rewrite tool is powerful but difficult to figure out and use, even when you can find the documentation for it. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Tools-for-automatic-recognition-of-Design-Patterns-tp4... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Sounds exciting, I'd be also happy to know if there is any tool I might have missed. You might want to take a look at the ASTInterpreter and write the analyses yourselves, if that is an option. As a matter of fact, I have some experience in doing program analysis and design pattern detection, but that's a long time ago. If you need any help, please let me know. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Tools-for-automatic-recognition-of-Design-Patterns-tp4... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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
email: nevena@iam.unibe.ch office phone: +41 (0)31 511 7639 webpage: http://scg.unibe.ch/staff/Milojkovic
stepharo wrote
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.
It's not a question of how, but when, really. There are many answers to this question and one of them is Chimera: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~taylor/ics228/chimera.pdf <http://forum.world.st/file/n4802920/chimera.png> There are no perfect solutions of course, but a lot could be done to improve the current situation, for example, executable flow charts (Grail is a great example) would be also a great start. Visual arrangement of concepts such as classes and annotations (in the form of mind maps) would be also great. The concepts are there, they just have to be rediscovered and integrated into Pharo. What your system needs is a hypermedia system and the liveliness would make it a perfect candidate. I have written about future directions, but nobody seemed interested which was quite a surprise to me. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Tools-for-automatic-recognition-of-Design-Patterns-tp4... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Roel Wuyts PhD was exactly this topic and it was in 1998. This is why he built SOUL. Le 31/1/15 13:05, Atlas a écrit :
stepharo wrote
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. It's not a question of how, but when, really.
There are many answers to this question and one of them is Chimera: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~taylor/ics228/chimera.pdf
<http://forum.world.st/file/n4802920/chimera.png>
There are no perfect solutions of course, but a lot could be done to improve the current situation, for example, executable flow charts (Grail is a great example) would be also a great start. Visual arrangement of concepts such as classes and annotations (in the form of mind maps) would be also great.
The concepts are there, they just have to be rediscovered and integrated into Pharo. What your system needs is a hypermedia system and the liveliness would make it a perfect candidate.
I have written about future directions, but nobody seemed interested which was quite a surprise to me.
-- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Tools-for-automatic-recognition-of-Design-Patterns-tp4... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hi Nevena, I don't know of such tool for Smalltalk. But if you feel inspired to build something you could check : "DPB: A Benchmark for Design Pattern Detection Tools" which is a good review. Cheers, Hernán 2015-01-30 13:07 GMT-03:00 Nevena Milojkovic <nevena@iam.unibe.ch>:
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
email: nevena@iam.unibe.ch office phone: +41 (0)31 511 7639 webpage: http://scg.unibe.ch/staff/Milojkovic
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