Change impact analysis to support architectural evolution
Date
2002-05-01
Authors
Advisors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
ISSN
1532-0618
Volume Title
Publisher
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution Research and Practice
Type
Article
Peer reviewed
Abstract
Description
Change impact analysis is useful in software maintenance and evolution. Many techniques have been proposed to support change impact analysis at the code level, but little effort has been made for change impact analysis at the architectural level. An approach is presented to support change impact analysis at the architecture level based on architecture slicing technique. The main impact of the reported approach is to assess the effect of changes in a software architecture by analysing its formal architectural specification, and therefore, the process of change impact analysis at the architectural-level can be automated completely.
Keywords
RAE 2008, UoA 23 Computer Science and Informatics
Citation
Yang, H., Xiang, L.M. and Zhao, J.J. (2002) Change impact analysis to support architectural evolution. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution Research and Practice, 14(5), pp. 317-333.