Hironori Washizaki, Tian Xia, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, “Introducing Software Reading Techniques into Pattern Writer’s Workshop: Checklists and Perspectives,” Proceedings of the 4th Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (AsianPLoP 2015), March 5-7, 2015, Tokyo, Japan. (to appear)

Pattern Writer’s Workshop (WW) is a method to review, evaluate, and improve each other’s pattern or pattern language papers under the guidance of a moderator. Although the WW has been well accepted at the pattern community and xPLoP conferences, there could be several problems such as poor moderations leading to “ad hoc” review meetings. To address the problems, we propose an approach for introducing two existing major software reading techniques, Checklist-Based Reading (CBR) and Perspective-Based Reading (PBR), to the WW targeting software patterns and pattern languages, and discuss potential benefits and drawbacks. Moreover we confirmed benefits and drawbacks of the approach by conducting an experiment.