Paper Info
Title
Design Patterns and Change Proneness: A Replication Using Proprietary C# Software
Abstract
This paper documents a study of change in commercial, proprietary software and attempts to determine whether a relationship exists between a class’ propensity to change and its design context; more specifically: whether a class is a participant in a design pattern.We identify specific design patterns and their propensity for change. Design pattern participants were found to have a higher propensity to change than classes that did not participate in a design pattern, supporting an earlier study by Bieman et al.; some design patterns, such as the Adaptor, Factory Method and Singleton were found have a higher change propensity than others.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/WCRE.2009.31
WCRE
Keywords
Field
DocType
design patterns,higher change propensity,design context,design pattern,design pattern participant,specific design pattern,proprietary c,factory method,higher propensity,paper document,change proneness,proprietary software,earlier study,replication,singleton,pattern,data mining,change,c,software engineering,object recognition
Systems engineering,Computer science,Software design pattern,Software,Singleton,Factory method pattern,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition,Design pattern
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1095-1350
12
0.57
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matt Gatrell1141.63
Steve Counsell21732117.90
Tracy Hall344312.96