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@INPROCEEDINGS{Khomh07-QAOOSE-DPQuality,
   AUTHOR       = {Foutse Khomh and Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc},
   BOOKTITLE    = {Proceedings of the 11<sup>th</sup> ECOOP workshop on Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering (QAOOSE)},
   TITLE        = {Perception and Reality: What are Design Patterns Good 
      For?},
   YEAR         = {2007},
   OPTADDRESS   = {},
   OPTCROSSREF  = {},
   EDITOR       = {e Abreu, Fernando Brito and Coral Calero and 
      Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc and Christian Lange and Michele Lanza and 
      Houari A. Sahraoui},
   MONTH        = {July--August},
   NOTE         = {7 pages.},
   OPTNUMBER    = {},
   OPTORGANIZATION = {},
   OPTPAGES     = {},
   PUBLISHER    = {Springer-Verlag},
   OPTSERIES    = {},
   OPTVOLUME    = {},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Quality models</b>, 
      Topic: <b>Design patterns</b>, Venue: <i>QAOOSE</i>},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/ECOOP07QAOOSE.doc.pdf},
   PDF          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/ECOOP07QAOOSE.ppt.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {We present a study of the impact of design patterns on 
      quality attributes. An empirical study is performed by asking 
      respondents their evaluations of the impact of all design patterns on 
      several quality attributes. We present detailed results for three 
      design patterns (Abstract Factory, Composite, and Flyweight) and 
      three quality attributes (reusability, understandability, and 
      expendability). We perform a Null hypothesis test and we conclude 
      that, contrary to popular beliefs, design patterns do not always 
      improve reusability and understandability, but that they do improve 
      expandability.}
}