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Design pattern alternatives: what to do when a GoF pattern fails

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Apostolos Ampatzoglou,

Sofia Charalampidou,

Ioannis StamelosAuthors Info & Claims

PCI '13: Proceedings of the 17th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics

Pages 122 - 127

https://doi.org/10.1145/2491845.2491857

Published: 19 September 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Design patterns have been introduced in the field of software engineering in the middle of 90s as common solutions to common design problems. Until now, the effect of design patterns on software quality attributes has been studied by many researchers. However, the results are not the expected ones, in the sense that several studies suggest that there are cases when a design pattern is not the optimum way of designing a system. In this paper, we present the findings of a systematic literature review that aims at cataloging published design solutions, referenced as alternative design solutions, which are equivalent to design patterns and can be used when a design pattern instance is not the optimum design solution for a specific design problem.

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Index Terms

Design pattern alternatives: what to do when a GoF pattern fails
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Object oriented development
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Object oriented frameworks

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PCI '13: Proceedings of the 17th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics

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DOI:10.1145/2491845

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The University of Sheffield
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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