Excluded articles based on the full-text

No. Articles Reasons
1. G. Masuda, N. Sakamoto, and K. Ushijima, "Redesigning of an existing software using design patterns," in Principles of Software Evolution, 2000. Proceedings. International Symposium on, 2000, pp. 165-169. This study is further studied by "Applying design patterns to decision tree learning system"
2. J. Jakubík and P. Návrat, "Reuse of Patterns' Source Code", in: Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, IOS Press, 2006, pp. 143-146. This article is a short paper.
3. W. Pree and H. Sikora, "Design patterns-essentials, experience, Java case study", in: Software Engineering Conference, 1997. Asia Pacific and International Computer Science Conference 1997. APSEC '97 and ICSC '97. Proceedings, 1997, pp. 534-535. This article is a short paper.
4. I. A. Zualkernan and M. Shouman, "Towards Ontology-Driven Heuristic Assessment Generation for Software Design Patterns", in: Eighth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologie (ICALT '08.), 2008, pp. 922-924. This article is a short paper and there is no empirical evidence.
5. L. Chen, H. Liu and Z.-z. Shao, "Research on supporting reuse in architecture design pattern system", Mini-Micro Systems, 25 (2004) 291-4. This article is a short paper.
6. C. Zhang and D. Budgen, "What Do We Know About the Effectiveness of Software Design Patterns", Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, PP (2011) 1-1. This article containts articles that have been included in our SLR.
7. I. Zitter, G. Kinkhorst, R.-j. Simons and O. ten Cate, "In search of common ground: A task conceptualization to facilitate the design of (e)learning environments with design patterns", Computers in Human Behavior, 25 (2009) 999-1009. The articles uses design patterns that are not in GoF patterns
8. V. K. Decyk and H. J. Gardner, "Object-oriented design patterns in Fortran 90/95: mazev1, mazev2 and mazev3", Computer Physics Communications, 178 (2008) 611-620. There is no empirical evidence.
9. K. Lano and N. Malik, "Reeingineering legacy applications using design patterns", in: Software Technology and Engineering Practice, 1997. Proceedings., Eighth IEEE International Workshop on [incorporating Computer Aided Software Engineering], 1997, pp. 326-338. There is no empirical evidence.
10. C. Li, Q. Wang, W. Cai and J. He, "An efficacious software design method based on pattern and its application", in: Software Engineering and Data Mining (SEDM), 2010 2nd International Conference on, 2010, pp. 280-284. There is no empirical evidence.
11. S. Pedrazzini, "The Finite State Automata's Design Patterns", in: Revised Papers from the Third International Workshop on Automata Implementation, Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 213-219. There is no empirical evidence.
12. D. W. I. Rouson, J. Xia and X. Xu, "Object construction and destruction design patterns in Fortran 2003", Procedia Computer Science, 1 (2010) 1495-1504. There is no empirical evidence.
13. J. C. Perez Sansalvador, G. Rodriguez Gomez and S. E. Pomares Hernandez, "Pattern object-oriented architecture for Multirate Integration Methods", in: 21st International Conference on Electronics Communications and Computers, CONIELECOMP 2011, February 28, 2011 - March 2, 2011, IEEE Computer Society, Cholula, Mexico, 2011, pp. 158-163. There is no empirical evidence.
14. T. H. Ng, Y. T. Yu and S. C. Cheung, "Factors for Effective Use of Deployed Design Patterns", in: Proceedings of the 2010 10th International Conference on Quality Software, IEEE Computer Society, 2010, pp. 112-121. This article is extended by "Human and program factors affecting the maintenance of programs with deployed design patterns"
15. M. P. Monteiro and E. Sousa, "Implementing design patterns in CaesarJ: An exploratory study", in: 6th Workshop on Software Engineering Properties of Languages and Aspect Technologies, SPLAT 2008 - 7th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, AOSD 2008, March 31, 2008 - April 4, 2008, Association for Computing Machinery, Brussels, Belgium, 2008. This article compares AspectJ and CecarJ on the design pattern implementation.
16. G. C. Porras and Y.-G. Gueheneuc, "An empirical study on the efficiency of different design pattern representations in UML class diagrams", Empirical Software Engineering, 15 (2010) 493-522. This article does not directly measure the impact of design patterns on software quality. It evaluate the effect of layout of design using design pattern in UML diagrams.
17. B. Sharif and J. I. Maletic, "An eye tracking study on the effects of layout in understanding the role of design patterns", in: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, IEEE Computer Society, 2010, pp. 1-10. This article evalutes the effect of layout of design patterns in UML diagrams.
18. T. H. Ng, S. C. Cheung, W. K. Chan and Y. T. Yu, "Toward effective deployment of design patterns for software extension: a case study", in: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software quality, ACM, Shanghai, China, 2006, pp. 51-56. This article investigates the relationship between design aptterns and open-principle principle.
19. G. Masuda, N. Sakamoto and K. Ushijima, "Applying design patterns to redesigning of an existing software and its evaluation", Research Reports on Information Science and Electrical Engineering of Kyushu University, 4 (1999) 113-118. This article is extended by "Applying design patterns to decision tree learning system".
20. M. Abul Khaer, M. M. A. Hashem and M. Raihan Masud, "On use of design patterns in empirical assessment of software design quality", in: Computer and Communication Engineering, 2008. ICCCE 2008. International Conference on, 2008, pp. 133-137. This article proposes an approch to use design patterns measure teh software quality. It does not directly measure the the impact of design patterns.
21. A. H. Eden and T. Mens, "Measuring software flexibility", IEE Proceedings: Software, 153 (2006) 113-125. This article proposes the flexibiltiy assessment method. It does not directly measure the impact of design patterns on the software quality.
22. M. Teplitsky and I. Exman, "Measuring Behavioral Software Design Patterns", in: Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 2006 IEEE 24th Convention of, 2006, pp. 384-388. This article propses the run-time measurement on the program using design patterns.
23. B. Wydaeghe, K. Verschaeve, B. Michiels, B. V. Damme, E. Arckens and V. Jonckers, "Building an OMT-Editor Using Design Patterns: An Experience Report", in: Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, IEEE Computer Society, 1998, pp. 20. This article provides the evidence based on the experts' opinion.
24. F. Khomh and Y.-G. Gueheneuce, "Do Design Patterns Impact Software Quality Positively?", in: Proceedings of the 2008 12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp. 274-278. This article use the survey based on Likert scale. This study based on the opinion.
25. M. I. Cagnin, R. Penteado, R. T. V. Braga and P. C. Masiero, "Reengineering using design patterns", in: 7th Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE-2000), November 23, 2000 - November 25, 2000, IEEE, Brisbane, Australia, 2000, pp. 118-127. This article uses design patterns that are not in GoF patterns.
26. W. v. Diggelen and M. Overdijk, "Grounded design: Design patterns as the link between theory and practice", Computers in Human Behavior, 25 (2009) 1056-1066. This article uses design patterns that are not in GoF patterns.
27. C. Hübscher, S. L. Pauwels, S. P. Roth, J. A. Bargas-Avila and K. Opwis, "The organization of interaction design pattern languages alongside the design process", Interacting with Computers, 23 (2011) 189-201. This article uses design patterns that are not in GoF patterns.
28. M. Hafiz, "A collection of privacy design patterns", in: Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Pattern languages of programs, ACM, Portland, Oregon, 2006, pp. 1-13. This article uses design patterns that are not in GoF patterns.
29. M. Mouratidou, V. Lourdas, A. Chatzigeorgiou and C. K. Georgiadis, "An Assessment of Design Patterns' Influence on a Java-based E-Commerce Application", Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 5 (2010) 25-38. This article uses design patterns that are not in GoF patterns.

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