Functionality versus practicality: Employing existing tools for recovering structural design patterns

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 866-882

  Prechelt, Lutz ^a   Krämer, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Kanthor AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design patterns; Design templates; Reverse engineering; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038282400     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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