The impact of design patterns on software quality and maintainability

Abstract

Designing Software is a challenging and complex task, maintaining quality and high standard in this process is a bigger challenge. Design Patterns commonly known as reusable solutions to some standard problems have been adopted in many software development projects to solve challenging tasks of software design and development . The following research paper examines and studies the impact of design patterns on software quality and maintainability. The study explores whether design patterns are the best approach to solving common software design problems, or if there are better alternatives. The research explores existing literature on Design Patterns and their impact on software development process. (Alexander, 1977)