What do we know about the effectiveness of software design patterns?

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1213-1231

  Zhang, Cheng ^a   Budgen, David ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design patterns; empirical software engineering; systematic literature review

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; REVIEWS;

DESIGN PATTERNS; EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; SOFTWARE DESIGN PATTERNS; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84867330357     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2011.79     Document Type: Review

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