Improving Dynamic Design Pattern Detection in Reclipse with Set Objects

Design pattern detection is a reverse engineering methodolo-gy that helps software engineers to analyze and understand legacy software by recovering design decisions and thereby providing deeper insight into software. Recent research has shown that a combination of static and dynamic source code analysis can produce better results than purely static ap-proaches. In this paper we present an extension of the pat-tern detection approach proposed by Wendehals [22]. In par-ticular, we extend the specification language for behavioral patterns to increase its expressiveness and the approach’s recall by introducing the concept of set objects. 1