JADEPT: Dynamic Analysis for Behavioral Design Pattern Detection

Francesca Arcelli, Fabrizio Perin, Claudia Raibulet, Stefano Ravani

2009

Abstract

In the context of reverse engineering, the recognition of design patterns provides additional information related to the rationale behind the design. This paper presents our approach to the recognition of design patterns based on dynamic analysis of Java software. The idea behind our approach is to identify a set of rules capturing information necessary to identify a design pattern instance. Rules are characterized by weights indicating their importance in the detection of a specific design pattern. The core behavior of each design pattern may be described through a subset of these rules forming a macrorule. Macrorules define the main traits of a pattern. JADEPT (JAva DEsign Pattern deTector) is our software for design pattern identification based on this idea. It captures static and dynamic aspects through a dynamic analysis of the software by exploiting the JPDA (Java Platform Debugger Architecture). The extracted information is stored in a database. Queries to the database implement the rules defined to recognize design patterns. The tool has been validated with positive results on different academic implementations of design patterns and on systems as JADEPT itself.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Arcelli F., Perin F., Raibulet C. and Ravani S. (2009). JADEPT: Dynamic Analysis for Behavioral Design Pattern Detection . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-811-98-2, pages 95-106. DOI: 10.5220/0001951800950106

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase09,
author={Francesca Arcelli and Fabrizio Perin and Claudia Raibulet and Stefano Ravani},
title={JADEPT: Dynamic Analysis for Behavioral Design Pattern Detection},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2009},
pages={95-106},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001951800950106},
isbn={978-989-811-98-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - JADEPT: Dynamic Analysis for Behavioral Design Pattern Detection
SN - 978-989-811-98-2
AU - Arcelli F.
AU - Perin F.
AU - Raibulet C.
AU - Ravani S.
PY - 2009
SP - 95
EP - 106
DO - 10.5220/0001951800950106