Analyzing impact rules of different change types to support change impact analysis

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	Analyzing impact rules of different change types to support change impact analysis
	Sun, Xiaobing (1); Li, Bixin (1); Wen, Wanzhi (1); Zhang, Sai (4); Li, B.
	2013
发表期刊	International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
ISSN	2181940
卷号	23 期号:3 页码:259-288
摘要	Software change impact analysis (CIA) is a key technique for identifying unpredicted and potential effects caused by changes made to software. Different changes have different ripple effects to other parts in the program, even some changes do not affect other entities in spite of some dependencies existing between these entities and the modified one. This induces imprecision if such a factor is neglected. This article proposes a static CIA technique which considers the impact rules of different change types to predict the change effects. Input of our CIA includes changed classes, class methods and class fields, and the output is composed of potentially affected classes, class methods, and class fields. Precision improvement of the CIA technique relies on three aspects: change types of a modified entity, dependencies between the modified entity and other entities, and a precise initial impact set (IIS), on which the final impact set (FIS) is computed. Experimental case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique, and present its potential applications in software maintenance. © 2013 World Scientific Publishing Company.; Software change impact analysis (CIA) is a key technique for identifying unpredicted and potential effects caused by changes made to software. Different changes have different ripple effects to other parts in the program, even some changes do not affect other entities in spite of some dependencies existing between these entities and the modified one. This induces imprecision if such a factor is neglected. This article proposes a static CIA technique which considers the impact rules of different change types to predict the change effects. Input of our CIA includes changed classes, class methods and class fields, and the output is composed of potentially affected classes, class methods, and class fields. Precision improvement of the CIA technique relies on three aspects: change types of a modified entity, dependencies between the modified entity and other entities, and a precise initial impact set (IIS), on which the final impact set (FIS) is computed. Experimental case studies demonstrate the effectiveness of our technique, and present its potential applications in software maintenance. © 2013 World Scientific Publishing Company.
收录类别	SCI ; EI
关键词	Change Impact Analysis Initial Impact Set Impact Rules Change Types Object Oriented Class And Member Dependency Graph
部门归属	(1) School of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China; (2) School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China; (3) State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; (4) Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Washington, Washington, United States
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000321584800001
引用统计	被引频次：9[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
内容类型	期刊论文
URI标识	http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/16939
专题	中国科学院软件研究所
通讯作者	Li, B.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sun, Xiaobing ,Li, Bixin ,Wen, Wanzhi ,et al. Analyzing impact rules of different change types to support change impact analysis[J]. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering,2013,23(3):259-288.
APA	Sun, Xiaobing ,Li, Bixin ,Wen, Wanzhi ,Zhang, Sai ,&Li, B..(2013).Analyzing impact rules of different change types to support change impact analysis.International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering,23(3),259-288.
MLA	Sun, Xiaobing ,et al."Analyzing impact rules of different change types to support change impact analysis".International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 23.3(2013):259-288.