Tool Support for Teaching Design Patterns

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Dietrich ◽  
Elizabeth Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Design Patterns ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Teaching Design

scholarly journals A Visual Language for Design Pattern Modeling and Instantiation

2011 ◽  
pp. 20-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Maplesden ◽  
John Hosking ◽  
John Grundy
Keyword(s):  
Design Pattern ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Visual Language ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Modeling Language ◽  
Formal Specifications ◽  
Prototype Tool ◽  
Pattern Modeling ◽  
Generic Design ◽  
Solution Specification

In this chapter we describe the Design pattern modeling language, a notation supporting the specification of Design pattern solutions and their instantiation into UML design models. DPML uses a simple set of visual abstractions and readily lends itself to tool support. DPML Design pattern solution specifications are used to construct visual, formal specifications of Design patterns. DPML instantiation diagrams are used to link a Design pattern solution specification to instances of a UML model, indicating the roles played by different UML elements in the generic Design pattern solution. A prototype tool is described, together with an evaluation of the language and tool.

Precision, Flexibility, and Tool Support

2011 ◽  
pp. 280-301
Author(s):  
Neelam Soundarajan ◽  
Jason O. Hallstrom
Keyword(s):  
Design Patterns ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
System Maintenance

There are two important requirements that any approach to formalizing Design patterns must meet. First, the approach must enable the precise specification of the implementation requirements and behavioral guarantees associated with a wide range of patterns. Second, the formalization of each pattern must retain the pattern’s inherent flexibility. In this chapter, we present a novel approach to formalizing Design patterns that satisfies these seemingly conflicting requirements. For the formalism to be of practical value, we also need tools that can assist practitioners in determining whether the patterns used in designing their systems have been implemented correctly. Such tools are especially important during system maintenance and evolution to ensure that the design integrity of a system is not compromised. We show how our approach lends itself to the construction of such tools.

Teaching design patterns using a family of games

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Antonio Gómez-Martín ◽  
Guillermo Jiménez-Díaz ◽  
Javier Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Design Patterns ◽  
Teaching Design
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