Improving Software Maintenance for Pattern-Based Software Development: A Comment Refactoring Approach

Abstract

The effectiveness of the design patterns has been an important research topic in the software engineering area. Since uncontrolled use of design patterns results in serious problem of maintenance. Good code comments can help maintainers understand the design of the software, thus avoid the wrong utilization of design patterns. In this paper we will in our refactoring approach that can add pattern comment line to improve the software maintains for a pattern-based software.