Mining Domain-Specific Design Patterns

Mining Domain-Specific Design Patterns: A Case Study †

“…The use of domain concepts for identifying the reusable design solutions lying among the designs of the various websites in the collection is the main contribution of this work to the methodology presented in [7]. Previously in [7], we solely used the "SemSimScore" and the "AverageSemSimScore" metrics for measuring whether the contents of the pages involved in a pattern among its occurrences are semantically close and, thus, assume that they possibly deliver the same information object types to end-users, i.e., support common functionality.…”

“…Previously in [7], we solely used the "SemSimScore" and the "AverageSemSimScore" metrics for measuring whether the contents of the pages involved in a pattern among its occurrences are semantically close and, thus, assume that they possibly deliver the same information object types to end-users, i.e., support common functionality. However, we were not able to capture which of these are information object types so that we can understand the purpose behind the use of the patterns in the context of the target domain.…”

“…In other words, we could capture cases in which the use of a pattern in the designs of the various websites was implying common functionality, but we could not express this functionality in terms of domain-specific objects so that to make it easier for developers to understand the context in which the identified patterns can be applied. To achieve this in [7], we had to manually inspect the pattern occurrences in order to be able to find out for which type of content (i.e., information objects) they are used to deliver to end-users in the educational domain.…”

“…The methodology was originally introduced in [7]. In this paper, we present an important extension of our previous work in [7], which is based on the use of domain concepts in the process of identifying the reusable design solutions that can be considered as domain-specific patterns.…”

“…The methodology was originally introduced in [7]. In this paper, we present an important extension of our previous work in [7], which is based on the use of domain concepts in the process of identifying the reusable design solutions that can be considered as domain-specific patterns. The key idea is to analyze the designs of the various websites in order to detect all of the possible design commonalities among them that can be considered as partitions of the domain and, thus, can be used as building blocks for producing future designs.…”