A design rule enforcement approach based on language extension

摘要

Software engineering principles require that software should comply with particular design rules. However, expressing design rules in a developer friendly manner is an open problem. Besides, these rules are easily broken during development. As a result, design flaws usually occur in software products. In this paper, an approach is proposed to define design rules and to provide compliance between source and the rules for object oriented languages. This approach is based on extending used programming language by considering design rules. Thus, it is expected that developers will be more comfortable with the rules. The study presents how design rules are modelled and how programming languages are extended according to proposed approach which is applied on representative design rules. Also, this approach is implemented for C++ language by developed Eclipse plug-ins.