PatternGuru: An educational system for software patterns

Abstract

In this paper we present PatternGuru an educational system for learning software patterns. Software patterns capture proven solutions of common problems in software development. Those solutions are general, but again they solve a problem in a particular context. PatternGuru is designed with the goal to be used for teaching software patterns within both undergraduate and graduate software engineering courses. The basic idea of PatternGuru is to provide learning of software patterns in collaborative manner and to present them as an integral part of software development. The tool is developed by extending ArgoUML an open source project, so it can be used for both software engineering and education.