Stable Design Patterns for Software and Systems

Mohamed Fayad

• Publisher: Auerbach Publications
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781498703307
• eBook ISBN: 9781351645676
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Information Technology
• Index: Computer Science

Attention to design patterns is unquestionably growing in software engineering because there is a strong belief that using made to measure solutions for solving frequently occurring problems encountered throughout the design phase greatly reduces the total cost and the time of developing software products. Stable Design Patterns for Software and Systems presents a new and fresh approach for creating stable, reusable, and widely applicable design patterns. It deals with the concept of stable design patterns based on software stability as a contemporary approach for building stable and highly reusable and widely applicable design patterns.

This book shows that a formation approach to discovering and creating stable design patterns accords with Alexander's current understanding of architectural patterns. Stable design patterns are a type of knowledge pattern that underline human problem solving methods and appeal to the pattern community.

This book examines software design patterns with respect to four central themes:

• How do we develop a solution for the problem through software stability concepts? This book offers a direct application of using software stability concepts for modeling solutions.
• How do we achieve software stability over time and design patterns that are effective to use?
• What are the unique roles of stable design patterns in modeling the accurate solution of the problem at hand and in providing stable and undisputed design for such problems? This book enumerates a complete and domain-less list of stable patterns that are useful for designing and modeling solutions for frequently recurring problems.
• What is the most efficient way to document the stable design patters to ensure efficient reusability? This book is an extension to the contemporary templates that are used in documenting design patterns.

This book gives a pragmatic and a novel approach toward understanding the problem domain and in proposing stable solutions for engineering stable software systems, components, and frameworks.

Section II

SDPs’ Detailed Documentation Template

This part consists of eight chapters and four sidebars.

Each chapter presents the detailed documentation pattern that consists of the following sections: (1) the name and type of the pattern, (2) context, (3) the functional and nonfunctional requirements, (4) challenges and constraints, (5) solution, (6) consequences, (7) applicability, (8) related patterns, quantitative and qualitative measurements, (9) modeling issues, (10) implementation issues, (11) formalizations, (12) testing issues, (13) business issues, and (14) common usages. The chapters presented in this part are

1.AnyActor Stable Design Pattern (Chapter 5)

2.AnyParty Stable Design Pattern (Chapter 6)

3.AnyEntity Stable Design Pattern (Chapter 7)

4.AnyData Stable Design Pattern (Chapter 8)

5.AnyEvidence Stable Design Pattern (Chapter 9)

6.AnyPrecision Stable Design Pattern (Chapter 10)

7.AnyCorrectiveAction Stable Design Pattern (Chapter 11)

8.AnyDebate Stable Design Pattern (Chapter 12)

This part also has four sidebars:

1.Common Stable Design Patterns (SB P2.1)

2.Fayad’s Practical Actor’s in UML (SB5.1)

3.Introducing Fayad’s Legal Actors to UML: Adding a New Dimension to Software Modeling (SB6.1)

4.e-Evidence or Digital Evidence (SB9.1)

Sidebar P2.1: Common Stable Design Patterns

This sidebar shows 16 common stable patterns the majority of them are used in Stable Analysis and Design Patterns. Each of the common pattern presents a brief overview of SDPs which play a major and decisive role in reducing the overall cost and in condensing the time duration of software project lifecycles

Detailed Templates

1.AnyActor—It appear in all stable analysis and design patterns—Refer to Chapter 5

2.AnParty—It appear in all stable analysis and design patterns—Refer to Chapter 6

3.AnyEntity—Refer to Chapter 7

Mid-Size Template

4.AnyConstraint—Refer to Chapter 13

Short Templates

5.AnyReason—Refer to Chapter 22

6.AnyConsequence—Refer to Chapter 23

7.AnyImoact—Refer to Chapter 24

8.AnyCause—Refer to Chapter 26

9.AnyCriteria—Refer to Chapter 27

10.AnyRule

11.AnyMechanisim—Refer to Chapter 28

12.AnyOutcome

13.AnyImoact—Refer to Chapter 24

14.AnyReason—Refer to Chapter 22

15.AnyCause—Refer to Chapter 26

16.AnyType

17.AnyEvent—Refer to Chapter 33

18.AnyMedia—Refer to Chapter 29

19.AnyLog—Refer to Chapter 30

5

AnyActor Stable Design Pattern

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Alan Rickman [1]

The AnyActor design pattern models the concept of actor by using software stability model. AnyActor is used in diverse domains, each domain having a different rationale for the use of this term. Since AnyActor design pattern captures the core knowledge, it is easy to model AnyActor in any application, by just hooking in the dynamic components of the application. The core is highly stable. Again, since software stability model is used for modeling concept of AnyActor, a generic model which can be extended for use by diverse applications is conceptualized. This increases reusability and reduction in repetition of modeling AnyActor for each individual application. It also formalizes the definition and types of actors and reduces the complexity of modeling actors and rules.

5.1Introduction

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Author
• Section I: Introduction
• Section II: SDPs’ Detailed Documentation Template
• Section III: SDPs’ Mid-Size Documentation Template
• Section IV: SDPs’ Short-Size Documentation Template
• Appendix A: Detailed Pattern Documentation Template (Preferred)
• Appendix B: Midsize Pattern Documentation Template
• Appendix C: Short Pattern Documentation Template
• Index