Design Patterns Impact on Software Quality

This paper explores the impact of design patterns on software quality and their contribution to software development. It discusses different design patterns, their principles, and their role in maintaining software quality.

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Design Patterns Impact on Software Quality
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction...................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Concepts about design patterns.................................................................................................3
2.2 Design patterns of software engineering...................................................................................4
2.3 Unifying principles and its characteristic’s...............................................................................5
3 Conclusion....................................................................................................................................6
Reference.........................................................................................................................................7

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1 Introduction
The foremost objective of this paper is to understand the design patterns which are used
in the software development organizations. The different aspects of the design patterns which
will followed in this paper are the methodology for the identification of the design works which
are already done, the different design patterns used in the software development and principles
associated with the designs.
2.1 Concepts about design patterns
The reverse engineering programs which are coded with the help of different categories
of programming languages can be very much useful for building the common meta models. The
terms associated with design patterns should be identified in the first place. The issue associated
with the designing phase of software development such as the compatibility issues can be
identified from this paper. Understand the key terms and the mapping between them is very
much important to deal with the complexities in the software designing phase. The designing
phase of the software development consists of the three sub-phases such as the design phase,
implementation of the design and the maintenance of the design. Designs developed from
different perspectives and approaches can collaborate into software if needed. Choice of the
design patterns is generally based on the needs and requirements of the clients of the software
development organization (Khomh and Guéhéneuc 2018). There are no programming languages
which can be used for the selection of the language patterns and the designing phase of the
software also requires the supporting tools. The SPQR tools can play a huge role in the
identification of the regularities in the system designs. Automatic generation of the codes and the
user-friendly syntax are the main reason behind the improved readability of the systems. The role

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of the design patterns should be well described in the documentation phase of software
development.
2.2 Design patterns of software engineering
The design pattern of software development has different categories of themes such as
the quality of the products, documentation, reverse engineering, forwards engineering,
formalization and other developmental tools.
Developmental tools: The knowledge sharing tools can be effectively used in the
software development programs as it is helpful to bring out the best performance from the
developers. Designing issue such as tracing problems can be resolved with the help of this tool.
Consistency in the software development industry can be maintained with the help of the
software engineers and the design systems.
Formalization: Specification language and tools are required for the introduction and the
selection of the design patterns in the system. The inconsistencies associated with the system
design can be identified with the help of the formalization approach. The relations among the
classes and functions of the source codes are also identified during formalization.
Forwards engineering: The syntax extensions and the code generations are the two sub-
themes of the forward engineering with design patterns. Implementation of the design systems
are not possible with the help of the software engineering tools which can be also used for the
action-specific information. There are issues associated with the object-oriented programming
languages which can be addressed with the help of the layered object models
Reverse engineering: The pattern-based components recovery and design pattern
detection are the main concepts of reverse engineering in software development. The defects in

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the design part can be identified with the help of reverse engineering practice. Thus, it can also
term as the pattern-based component recovery system used in software development.
Quality of the products: The stability of the codes used in the design phase of the
software development is maintained if the classes used in the source codes are properly
maintained. Sometimes there are few automatic changes in the source codes which can cause
many issues in the software such as lagging issue and responsiveness issue. Cohesion can be
improved if the classes are properly maintained in the source codes.
Documentation: All the different types of phases of designing needs to be well
documented in order to minimize future complexities. The documentation is also very much
important for the developers of the software who uses different types of programming languages
after the design part is completed
2.3 Unifying principles and its characteristic’s
The software development procedure requires flexibility in every phase starting from the
documentation phase to the developmental phase. The increasing levels of indirection with the
help of new classes can be hugely beneficial to provide flexibility in the software developmental
phases. The visitor design pattern is conducted on the elements of the object structure to improve
the source codes. One basic framework in this industry can be used in the developmental work of
various software and applications. Composite design patterns are used in the source codes where
it needs to implement inheritance relationships. Even after the success of the object-oriented
programming language, the lack of principle prevents the cross-fertilization of the of the patterns
of the different programming language. The three basic principles of the software developmental
phase are formalization, categorization and the cross-fertilization, these three principles

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collectively play a huge role in the different phases of the software development. The system
patterns are enhanced with the help of specific tools. The tools can be also successfully used to
cover up the limitation of the programming languages.
3 Conclusion
The different perceptions of design patterns and their contribution to the software
development can be identified in this paper, the paper was very much helpful to understand the
different types of design patterns which are increasingly used in the software development
procedure. The different categories of principles such as categorization and cross-fertilization
can be also understood from this paper. Thus, this paper is very much useful to understand the
impact of design patterns in maintaining the quality of software.

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Reference
Khomh, F. and Guéhéneuc, Y.G., 2018, March. Design patterns impact on software quality:
Where are the theories?. In 2018 IEEE 25th International Conference on Software Analysis,
Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) (pp. 15-25). IEEE.