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@INPROCEEDINGS{Khomh08-CSMR-DPQuality,
   AUTHOR       = {Foutse Khomh and Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc},
   BOOKTITLE    = {Proceedings of the 12<sup>th</sup> Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR)},
   TITLE        = {Do Design Patterns Impact Software Quality Positively?},
   YEAR         = {2008},
   OPTADDRESS   = {},
   OPTCROSSREF  = {},
   EDITOR       = {Christos Tjortjis and Andreas Winter},
   MONTH        = {April},
   NOTE         = {5 pages. Short Paper. \awardMost influential paper at SANER'18.},
   OPTNUMBER    = {},
   OPTORGANIZATION = {},
   PAGES        = {274--278},
   PUBLISHER    = {IEEE CS Press},
   OPTSERIES    = {},
   OPTVOLUME    = {},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Quality models</b>, Venue: <c>CSMR</c>},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/CSMR08.doc.pdf},
   PDF          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/CSMR08.ppt.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {We present an empirical study of the impact of design 
      patterns on quality attributes in the context of software maintenance 
      and evolution. Our first hypothesis verifies software engineering 
      lore: design patterns impact software quality positively. We show 
      that, contrary to popular beliefs, design patterns \emph{in practice} 
      impact negatively several quality attributes, thus providing concrete 
      evidence against common lore. We then study design patterns and 
      object-oriented best practices by formulating a second hypothesis on 
      the impact of these principles on quality. We show that results for 
      some design patterns cannot be explained and conclude on the need for 
      further studies on the relation between design patterns and 
      object-oriented best practices. Thus, we bring further evidence that 
      design patterns should be used with caution during development 
      because they may actually impede maintenance and evolution.}
}