Relations Extraction on Patterns Lacking of Resulting Context.
Asma Hachemi, Mohamed Ahmed‐Nacer · 2012
Abstract. Many software patterns are available nowadays. They allow the reuse of proved solutions in various areas of software engineering, but are expressed in different formalisms. This diversity is detrimental for patterns reuse, since it is difficult to compare and compose heterogeneous patterns (patterns expressed in different formalisms). Moreover, patterns composition is based on inter-patterns relationships, that are difficult to discern if they are not explicit. Thus, an automatic method that extract non explicit relations between patterns even if those latter are heterogeneous, becomes a necessity. In this context, we improve an existing method of automatic inter-patterns relations analysis. As many patterns lack of resulting context, our aim is to enable that method to extract relations on this kind of patterns.