CONCLUSIONS

 

Benefits of Design Patterns

• Patterns improve developer communication
• Help document the architecture of a system
• Design patterns enable large-scale reuse of software architectures
• Patterns don't provide solutions, they inspire solutions.
• Patterns explicitly capture expert knowledge and design tradeoffs and make this expertise widely available
• Ease the transition to object-oriented technology

 

Drawbacks of Design Patterns

• Patterns do not lead to direct code reuse.
• Patterns are deceptively simple.
• Teams may suffer from patterns overload.
• Integrating patterns into a software development process is a human-intensive activity.