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Using patterns for design and documentation

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ECOOP'97 — Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1997)

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The dovetailing of design and documentation is characteristic for many mature engineering disciplines. In electrical engineering, for example, a circuit diagram is a means and technique for both designing and documenting. Software engineering falls short in this respect, especially when it comes to architectural issues. Design patterns can help here. Using both form and content of design patterns promotes the principle of documenting by designing. Our experience report presents some examples of this principle taken from an evaluation project at SAP, Germany.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Siegen, D-57068, Siegen, Germany

    Georg Odenthal & Klaus Quibeldey-Cirkel

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Odenthal, G., Quibeldey-Cirkel, K. (1997). Using patterns for design and documentation. In: Akşit, M., Matsuoka, S. (eds) ECOOP'97 — Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1241. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053393

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