ArchReco: a software tool to assist software design based on context aware recommendations of design patterns

Abstract

This work describes the design, development and evaluation of a software Prototype, named ArchReco, an educational tool that employs two types of Context-aware Recommendations of Design Patterns, to support users (CS students or professionals) who want to improve their design skills when it comes to training for High Level Software models. The tool's underlying algorithms take advantage of Semantic Web technologies, and the usage of Content based analysis for the computation of non-personalized recommendations for Design Patterns. The recommendations' objective is to support users in functions such as finding the most suitable Design Pattern to use according to the working context, learn the meaning, objectives and usages of each Design Pattern. The current work presents the Semantic Modeling of the Software Design process through the definition of the context that defines the Software Design process and in particular the representation of the Design Patterns as Ontology model, the implemented Context Aware Recommendation Algorithms and the evaluation results extracted from a user based testing for the ArchReco prototype.

Software design pattern selection approaches: A systematic literature review

“…As shown in this figure, the main and common phase in the ontology-based approach is constructing an ontology of the concepts contained in the pattern description. Kampffmeyer and Zschaler, 17 Naghdipour and Hasheminejad, 32 Di Noia et al, 47 Sielis et al, 54 and Khoury et al 56 have used this approach for suggesting suitable design patterns.…”

Analysis of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Software Development Tools

“…One of the core study units in the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics is software engineering, which is a software development process that requires core activities such as analyzing, system designing, coding, and unit testing, integrating, and system testing [1]. Practicing software development can be supported by development tools such as frameworks, tools, and libraries [2] to support every stage of software development [3,4,5,6]. Several studies have proven that using tools can provide a variety of conveniences, including insight into the success and quality of the software that has been developed [1].…”