Software Change Impact Analysis (Paperback)

Software Change Impact Analysis

As software systems become increasingly large and complex, the needincreases to predict and control the effects of software changes.This book captures the latest information on the science and art ofdetermining what software parts affect each other. It is a handyone-volume source of useful information about software changeimpact analysis techniques and technical results. The book framesthe field, focuses attention, and tempers expectations.The book provides a battery of ideas for doing impact analysisbetter. The reader will gain a healthy respect for the strengthsand limitations of impact analysis technology and a solidbackground that will provide valuable for years to come. The bookidentifies key impact analysis definitions and themes andillustrates those themes through a collection of representativepapers. It includes reports on software source code dependencyanalysis and software traceability analysis and proposes howresults from both areas can more effectively support impactanalysis in software engineering repositories. It also describeswhy impact representation and determination techniques are at theheart of both source dependency analysis and traceability analysis.The papers provide fundamental information of enduring value andwere selected by how well they illustrate the important themes andhow well they equip the reader with a solid understanding fortackling impact analysis problems.