Improving OO Design Process Using Rules, Patterns and Refactoring

Abstract

In recent years different areas of knowledge related to the construction of object-oriented (OO) designs such as principles, heuristics, patterns, and refactoring techniques have been consolidated, but there is a lot of work still to be done in order to systematize and offer this knowledge to OO designers in such a way that it can be easily used in practical cases. In order to clarify this, we have defined an ontology of OO Micro Architectural Design Knowledge and the foundations of an OO design method based in the knowledge.