Software change validation using class diagram and SRS

It has been well accepted by the software professionals as well as researchers that software systems have to evolve themselves to survive successfully. Software evolution is a crucial activity for software organizations. One of the challenging parts of the software change management is to validate the change. Regression testing is used to achieve validation of changed software. In this paper we are proposing an approach for validating the requested changes in earlier stage of the development i.e. we validate changes after design modification so that any invalid change could be corrected before actual change implementation. This reduces the regression test effort, since after change implementation; we only need to verify the change.