Mining Instances of Structural Design Patterns from Class Diagrams Based on Sub-patterns

A comprehensive approach to the recovery of design pattern instances based on sub-patterns and method signatures

“…In this way, we can recover instances of all GoF design patterns with the balanced high precision and recall. As a comparison, our previous approach, presented in Yu et al (2013b) and Yu et al (2013a), can only recover the structural pattern instances. Moreover, it does not investigate the method signature, which therefore leads to a number of false instances.…”