During the past decade, object-orientation (OO) has become the dominant software development methodology, accompanied by a number of modeling notations, programming languages, and...
Impact analysis, determining when a change in one part of a program affects other parts of the program, is timeconsuming and problematic. Impact analysis is rarely used to predict...
As software evolves, impact analysis estimates the potential effects of changes, before or after they are made, by identifying which parts of the software may be affected by such ...
Taweesup Apiwattanapong, Alessandro Orso, Mary Jea...
Software that cannot evolve is condemned to atrophy: it cannot accommodate the constant revision and renegotiation of its business goals nor intercept the potential of new technol...
Ronald Morrison, Graham N. C. Kirby, Dharini Balas...
— As new versions of software are developed bugs inevitably arise either due to regression or new functionality. Challenges arise in discovering, managing, and testing the impact...
Kevin J. Hoffman, Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Patri...