Analysis patterns have recently shown their great potential to enhance the set-up of models inobject-oriented analysis. This report attempts to summarise the present state of literature on thesubject of analysis patterns. It is organised in two main parts. In the first part, we present acomprehensive overview of the existing literature considering about one hundred mostly Englishwritten contributions. In the second part, we address some fundamental methodological issuesrelated to both the creation and the application of analysis patterns. We study pattern documentationand organisation – e.g. in pattern catalogues – as important factors which the successful re-use ofanalysis patterns depends on. Furthermore, we consider and generalise numerous existingapproaches to the application of analysis patterns. We show that all these procedures can besubsumed under two methods that are described in a formal fashion. Within the first method,patterns are integrated in the analysis model from the very first, whereas in the second methodpatterns are integrated only after a complete model has been established. Since the first method is ofparticular interest, it is illustrated by means of a substantial and nontrivial example. We also givespecial attention to the issue of traceability of patterns incorporated in a model, and we describe apromising approach from recent literature in detail.
