Design Patterns discussion

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

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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
Profilstraße 8
58084 Hagen
Germany

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