Análise comparativa de métodos de inserção e detecção de padrões de projeto

Abstract

Refactoring is a way to restructure a software system, without changing its external behavior, providing an improvement in the quality of the source code. Tools have been developed to help in the process of pattern-based design refactoring such as the Refactoring and Measurement Tool (RMT). This tool contains methods for inserting and detecting design patterns, but new methods can be added to its architecture. The addition of new methods is possible by studying the methods in the literature that detect and insert design patterns. This work performed an analysis of three methods capable of inserting and detecting design patterns in a source code. The analysis was performed by listing comparison characteristics such as: source code reading process, patterns that are identified by the methods, among others. As a result it was verified that few are the patterns identified by the methods and these methods have a different way of detecting and inserting patterns, although some methods manage to contemplate the same design pattern.