Recognizing Design Patterns in C++ programs with the integration of Columbus and Maisa

Abstract

A method for recognizing design patterns from C++ programs is presented. The method consists of two separate phases, analysis and reverse engineering of the C++ code, and architectural pattern matching over the reverse-engineered intermediate code representation. It is shown how the pattern recognition effect can be realized by integrating two specialized software tools, the reverse engineering framework Columbus and the architectural metrics analyzer Maisa. The method and the integrated power of the tool set are illustrated with small experiments.

Publication
Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Programming Languages and Software Tools (SPLST 2001), Szeged, Hungary, Pages 58–70

BibTeX:

@InProceedings{FGM01,
    author    = {Ferenc, Rudolf and Gustafsson, Juha and M{\"u}ller, L\'aszl\'o and Paakki, Jukka},
    title     = {Recognizing Design Patterns in {C++} programs with the integration of {C}olumbus and {M}aisa},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Programming Languages and Software Tools (SPLST 2001)},
    year      = {2001},
    pages     = {58--70},
    address   = {Szeged, Hungary},
    month     = jun,
    publisher = {University of Szeged},
    keywords  = {design patterns, reverse engineering, source code parsing, C++, object-oriented design},
}