Traceability management for impact analysis

Author

De Lucia, Andrea ; Fasano, Fausto ; Oliveto, Rocco

Author_Institution

Via Ponte don Melillo, Univ. of Salerno, Fisciano

fYear

2008

fDate

Sept. 28 2008-Oct. 4 2008

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

30

Abstract

Software change impact analysis is the activity of the software maintenance process that determines possible effects of proposed software changes. This activity is necessary to be aware of ripple-effects caused by the change and record them so that nothing is overlooked. A change has not only impact on the source code, but also on the other related software artefacts, such as requirements, design, and test. For this reason, impact analysis can be efficiently supported through traceability information. In this paper we review traceability management in the context of impact analysis and discuss the main challenges and research directions.

Keywords

software engineering; impact analysis; ripple-effects; software changes; software maintenance process; source code; traceability management; Computational Intelligence Society; IEEE standard glossaries; Information analysis; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software performance; Software standards; Software systems; Software testing; Terminology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers of Software Maintenance, 2008. FoSM 2008.

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2654-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2655-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FOSM.2008.4659245

Filename

4659245