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The GoF provides a complete pattern lifecycle methodology spanning from problem identification through solution deployment: patterns serve both preventive roles (eight redesign causes mapped to mitigating patterns, three phases of software evolution anticipated) and curative roles (patterns as refactoring targets during consolidation), deployed through a systematic process (six selection strategies for identifying the right pattern, seven ordered steps for applying it correctly to a specific design problem).
Preventive-curative dual roles combined with systematic selection and application process yields a complete pattern lifecycle methodology
Depends on (SL): patterns-preventive-and-curative, gof-systematic-pattern-application-method