A Benchmark for Design Pattern Recovery Tools

Design patterns are template solutions to well-known design problems. Several approaches have been developed to recover design pattern instances from software programs. However, there is no common agreed benchmark to validate the recovered design pattern instances. This paper presents a benchmark that involves the instances of design patterns recovered from three subject systems. This benchmark has been developed by investigating the design pattern instances recovered by several recovery tools. Our benchmark can be used by design pattern recovery tools to validate their recovered design instances.