Software Change Impact Analysis
Software Engineering Best Practices
1. Auflage Juni 1996
396 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
As software systems become increasingly large and complex, the need
increases to predict and control the effects of software changes.
This book captures the latest information on the science and art of
determining what software parts affect each other. It is a handy
one-volume source of useful information about software change
impact analysis techniques and technical results. The book frames
the field, focuses attention, and tempers expectations.
The book provides a battery of ideas for doing impact analysis
better. The reader will gain a healthy respect for the strengths
and limitations of impact analysis technology and a solid
background that will provide valuable for years to come. The book
identifies key impact analysis definitions and themes and
illustrates those themes through a collection of representative
papers. It includes reports on software source code dependency
analysis and software traceability analysis and proposes how
results from both areas can more effectively support impact
analysis in software engineering repositories. It also describes
why impact representation and determination techniques are at the
heart of both source dependency analysis and traceability analysis.
The papers provide fundamental information of enduring value and
were selected by how well they illustrate the important themes and
how well they equip the reader with a solid understanding for
tackling impact analysis problems.
Acknowledgments.
An Introduction to Software Change Impact Analysis.
Chapter 1. Nature of Impact Analysis.
A Process Model for Software Maintenance.
Impact Analysis-Towards A Framework for Comparison.
The Year 2000 Problem: Impact, Strategies, and Tools.
Chapter 2. State of the Practice.
An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem.
Software Change Impact Analysis for Design Evolution.
Configuration Management Survey.
Chapter 3. Automated Support for Impact Analysis.
The Integrated CASE Manifesto.
Practical Software Maintenance Environment.
Intelligent Assistance for Software Development and
Maintenance.
Maintenance Support for Object-Oriented Programs.
Chapter 4. Dependency-Analysis Approaches.
Using Dependence Analysis to Support the Software Maintenance
Process.
Interprocedural Slicing Using Dependence Graphs.
Data Dependency Graphs for Ada Programs.
Data Flow Analysis and its Application to Software
Maintenance.
Change Impact Identification in Object Oriented Software
Maintenance.
Chapter 5. Traceability Approaches.
A Hypertext System to Manage Software Life-Cycle Documents.
SODOS: A Software Documentation Support Environment-Its
Definition.
Traceability Based on Design Decisions.
A Process for Consolidating and Reusing Design Knowledge.
Chapter 6. Impact Representation.
The Prism Model of Changes.
A Unified Interprocedural Program Representation for a Maintenance
Environment.
A Formal Model of Program Dependences and Its Implications for
Software Testing, Debugging, and Maintenance.
A Graph Model for Software Evolution.
Chapter 7. Impact-Determination Techniques.
An Early Impact Analysis Technique for Software Maintenance.
Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance.
Efficient Algorithms for the Instantiated Transitive Closure
Queries.
Approximate Reasoning About the Semantic Effects of Program
Changes.
Chapter 8. Final Remarks.
Annotated Bibliography.
Authors Biographies.
