Framework Design
In a project supported by the Austrian FWF and the Finnish Academy of Sciences
we are developing techniques and tools to design and manage object-oriented
frameworks. We have proposed a two-phase technique for framework design
which relies on stepwise generalisation.
In the first phase the specification of a problem from the target domain
is generalized into more and more abstract specifications. In the second
phase these specifications are implemented in the reverse order. Each of
the implementations is regarded as a framework and is used in the implementation
of the next higher framework. The result is not only a solution to the original
problem but also a sequence of individually reusable frameworks.
Paper
K.Koskimies, H.Mössenböck: Designing a Framework by
Stepwise Generalization. 5th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC),
Barcelona, LNCS 989, Springer-Verlag 1995, pp.479-497 (postscript)