Adaptation of design pattern retrieval using CBR and FCA

Abstract

Software developers currently find design patterns through search tools for solving software design problem. However, these search tools still have keywordsearch problem. In this paper, we introduce the elementary idea to improve the design pattern retrieval tool. We propose the combination of Case Based Reasoning (CBR) and Formal Concept Analysis (FCA). Because of CBR lead to the smart solution and FCA provides flexible way to maintain indexing in the case base. © 2009 IEEE.