Identifying domain patterns using software stability

The fact that domain applications share core aspects has turned software reuse into a viable option. System development has experienced time saving, cost saving, and the luxury of deploying proven-to-work solutions as main advantages of software reuse. Software patterns represent a major approach for reuse. Domain patterns capture system components shared by different applications that belong to the same context. In this paper, we propose a new approach to identifying and reusing domain patterns based on software stability. We show that enduring business themes and business objects, together, can form a pattern among domain applications. We, also, present three case studies to show how the new approach can be applied.