Live software documentation of design pattern instances.

Background

Approaches to documenting the software patterns of a system can support intentionally and manually documenting them or automatically extracting them from the source code. Some of the approaches that we review do not maintain proximity between code and documentation. Others do not update the documentation after the code is changed. All of them present a low level of

Approach

This work proposes an approach to improve the understandability of a software system by documenting the design patterns it uses. We regard the

Results

To evaluate this approach, we conducted a controlled experiment with 21 novice developers. We asked participants to complete three tasks that involved

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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.