Automatic Recommendation of Software Design Patterns Using Anti-patterns in the Design Phase: A Case Study on Abstract Factory
Nadia Nahar, Kazi Muheymin Sakib · 2015
Anti-patterns, one of the reasons for software design problems, can be solved by applying proper design patterns. If anti-patterns are discovered in the design phase, this should lead an early pattern recommendation by using relationships between anti- and design patterns. This paper presents an idea called Anti- pattern based Design Pattern Recommender (ADPR), that uses design diagrams i.e. class and sequence diagrams to detect anti- patterns and recommend corresponding design patterns. First of all, anti-patterns relating to specific design patterns are analyzed. Those anti-patterns are detected in the faulty software design to identify the required design patterns. For assessment, a case study is shown along with the experimental result analysis. Initially, ADPR is prepared for recommendation of the Abstract Factory design pattern only, and compared to an existing code-based recommender. The comparative results are promising, as ADPR was successful for all cases of Abstract Factory.