Towards Tool Support for Design Patterns Using Program Transformations

Abstract

Design patterns have greatly helped spreading a limited number of well-tried solutions to recurring object-oriented problems. But as new patterns are introduced at a steady rate, the concept must evolve so that tools can help programmers not to be lost, facing a host of patterns. In this paper, we propose that design patterns be systematically analyzed and reformulated to exhibit a reasoning binding solutions to precisely stated problems, given a set of mechanisms. We show on some creational patterns how these mechanisms can be described as program transformations and how an assistant tool could systematically explore the set of potential solutions induced by these transformations. This would both help the selection and the instantiation of the appropriate patterns.

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