Building an OMT-editor using design patterns: an experience report

Author

Wydaeghe, Bart ; Verschaeve, Kurt ; Michiels, Bart ; Van Bamme, I. ; Arckens, Evert ; Jonckers, Viviane

Author_Institution

Vrije Univ., Brussels, Belgium

fYear

1998

fDate

3-7 Aug 1998

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

32

Abstract

This paper discusses the development and implementation of a customizable editor for OMT/UML style object-models and behavior-models. A number of well known design patterns are used to obtain a flexible architecture that allows to build tool support for our software engineering research requiring variants or add-ons to the basic editors. We report on the difficulties we encountered in applying the Model-View-Control, Observer, Visitor, Iterator, Bridge, Facade and Chain of Responsibility patterns and we evaluate the claims of improved flexibility, modularity, reusability, and understandability as stated in the design pattern literature in general

Keywords

object-oriented methods; software reusability; software tools; OMT editor; UML; behavior models; customizable editor; design patterns; flexible architecture; object models; software engineering research; software reusability; software tool; software understandability; Application software; Books; Bridges; Buildings; Computer architecture; Electronic mail; Modular construction; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, 1998. TOOLS 26. Proceedings

Conference_Location

Santa Barbara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8482-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TOOLS.1998.711000

Filename

711000