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Proceeding of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications table of contents

Orlando, Florida, USA

SESSION: Onward! 2009: Onward! full papers table of contents

Pages 469-480

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-766-0

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Dirk Riehle

SAP Labs LLC, Palo Alto, CA, USA

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Design pattern density is a metric that measures how much of an object-oriented design can be understood and represented as instances of design patterns. Expert developers have long believed that a high design pattern density implies a high maturity of the design under inspection. This paper presents a quantifiable and observable definition of this metric. The metric is illustrated and qualitatively validated using four real-world case studies. We present several hypotheses of the metric's meaning and their implications, including the one about design maturity. We propose that the design pattern density of a maturing framework has a fixed point and we show that if software design patterns make learning frameworks easier, a framework's design pattern density is a measure of how much easier it will become.

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