General talk about software patterns

["Giselher Pankratz" <Giselher.Pankratz AT FernUni-Hagen.de>]

Dear list members, 

Some of you may find this State-of-the-Art report of interest. Comments and 
suggestions are highly appreciated. Feel free to contact us.

Best wishes
Nicolas Blaimer, Andreas Bortfeldt, Giselher Pankratz
University of Hagen, Germany


Patterns in Object-Oriented Analysis
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Authors: Nicolas Blaimer, Andreas Bortfeldt, Giselher Pankratz
Corresponding author: Andreas Bortfeldt, 
andreas.bortfeldt AT fernuni-hagen.de
Downloadable from: 
ftp://ftp.fernuni-hagen.de/pub/fachb/wiwi/winf/forschng/publi/Diskussionsbeitrag_451.pdf


Please cite as: Blaimer, N.; Bortfeldt, A. and Pankratz, G.: Patterns in 
Object-Oriented Analysis,
Working Paper No. 451, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, 
University of Hagen
(Germany), 2010.

Abstract:
Analysis patterns have recently shown their great potential to enhance the 
set-up of models in object-oriented analysis. This report attempts to 
summarize the present state of literature on the subject of analysis 
patterns. It is organised in two main parts. In the first part, we present a 
comprehensive overview of the existing literature considering about one 
hundred contributions. In the second part, we address some fundamental 
methodological issues related to both the creation and the application of 
analysis patterns. We study pattern documentation and organisation - e.g. in 
pattern catalogues - as important factors which the successful re-use of 
analysis patterns depends on. Furthermore, we consider and generalize 
numerous existing approaches to the application of analysis patterns. We show 
that all these approaches can be subsumed under two methods. Within the first 
method, patterns are integrated in the analysis model from the very first, 
whereas in the second method patterns are integrated only after a complete 
model has been established. Since the first method is of particular interest, 
it is illustrated by means of a substantial and nontrivial example. We also 
give special attention to the issue of traceability of patterns incorporated 
in a model, and we describe a promising approach from recent literature in 
detail.

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Dr. Giselher Pankratz
Lehrstuhl Wirtschaftsinformatik
Prof. Dr. Hermann Gehring

FernUniversität - University of Hagen
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58084 Hagen
Germany

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