EuroPLoP 2007 Focus Group

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This is the wiki for the EuroPLoP 2007 Focus Group on Pattern Repositories. For information on the focus group please contact: Michael Weiss (weiss_at_sce.carleton.ca) or Aliaksandr Birukou (aliaksandr.birukou_at_dit.unitn.it).

Contents 1 Objectives 2 Participation 3 Position Papers 4 Activities 4.1 Pre-conference 4.2 Conference 4.3 Post-conference

[edit] Objectives

How do you find a pattern?

1. Flip through the patterns books on your shelf.
2. Google.
3. Don’t bother and stick with what you know.
4. Search a Pattern Repository.

In this focus group we will explore the issues of making a pattern repository work well. Some of the questions for which we hope to get answers are how do you organize and search pattern repositories, how do you integrate them with your existing development process, and how do you create a community of users around a repository.

Check here for a detailed List of Topics we are interested in.

[edit] Participation

The focus group will be interactive, and involve brainstorming exercises and discussion. Participants are expected to have read the position papers in advance. However, participation is open and does not depend on having submitted a position paper.

This wiki is not a static website. Please feel free to add to the material.

[edit] Position Papers

The following position papers have been posted to date. Papers can still be submitted.

• Ondrej Lehecka, Milos Kudelka, and Vaclav Snasel, New Pattern Classification Approach
• Muhammad Ali Babar, Improving the Reuse of Pattern-Based Knowledge in Software Architecting
• Christian Graf, A Requirements Engineering Perspective to Repositories for Interaction Patterns
• Daniel Serrano, Antonio Maña and Dimitrios Sotiriou, Towards Precise and Certified Security Patterns
• Yann-Gael Gueheneuc and Rabih Mustapha, A Simple Recommender System for Design Pattern
• Yann-Gael Gueheneuc, P-MARt: A Database of Design Patterns Instances
• Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, Paolo Giorgini, and Michael Weiss, Facilitating Pattern Repository Access with the Implicit Culture Framework
• Luca Sabatucci, Massimo Cossentino and Salvatore Gaglio, Pattern Repository and Reuse in the PASSI Methodology

[edit] Activities

[edit] Pre-conference

1. We have created a group at CiteULike where people can share bibliographies. More at Share Bibilographies.
2. Read the position papers.

[edit] Conference

1. Short overview of any open issues and of the Main Arguments from the position papers
2. Ask non-author participants to present their positions
3. Discuss how the positions relate to each other
4. Identification of major issues and selection of "hottest" issues to be examined (in the rest of the workshop)
5. Participants to work in small groups on separate issues and produce a summary
6. Each group to present their findings to the focus group
7. Closing discussion

[edit] Post-conference

1. Prepare summary of focus group results
2. Other post-conference activities to be decided on during the focus group