CBR AND MICRO-ARCHITECTURE ANTI-PATTERNS BASED SOFTWARE DESIGN IMPROVEMENT

摘要

This paper presents a Case Based Reasoning (CBR) approach to identifying micro-architecture anti-patterns and replacing them with "good" patterns in order to improve the design of software system. The resulting system design benefits from better flexibility for adapting to future requirement change and expansion. In this approach, both problematic inflexible structures and their corresponding refactoring designs are formally defined and organized in a case base. The identification of anti-patterns is carried out through similarity measurement on class diagrams, sequence diagrams, OO quality metric and semantic constraints. A supporting system CBDIT was developed to aid this approach.