Supporting software development through declaratively codified programming patterns

In current-day software development, programmers often use programming patterns to clarify their intents and to increase the understandability of their programs. Unfortunately, most software development environments do not adequately support the declaration and use of such patterns. To explicitly co...

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Published in:Expert systems with applications Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 405 - 413
Main Authors: Mens, Kim, Michiels, Isabel, Wuyts, Roel
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2002
Subjects:
Logic programming
Meta programming
Object-oriented programming
Programming patterns
Tool support
Logic programming
Object-oriented programming
Tool support
Programming patterns
Meta programming
ISSN:0957-4174, 1873-6793
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Summary:In current-day software development, programmers often use programming patterns to clarify their intents and to increase the understandability of their programs. Unfortunately, most software development environments do not adequately support the declaration and use of such patterns. To explicitly codify these patterns, we adopt a declarative meta programming approach. In this approach, we reify the structure of a (object-oriented) program in terms of logic clauses. We declare programming patterns as logic rules on top of these clauses. By querying the logic system, these rules allow us to check, enforce and search for occurrences of certain patterns in the software. As such, the programming patterns become an active part of the software development and maintenance environment.
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ISSN:0957-4174
1873-6793
DOI:10.1016/S0957-4174(02)00076-3