International Conference on Software Maintenance
Impact analysis in the software change process: A year 2000 perspective
作者:
SA Bohner
关键词:
Year 2000 Date situation；software change efforts；software change estimates；software change impact analysis；software change process；software change visibility；software community；software life cycle objects；software maintenance；year 2000 perspective
摘要:
Software change impact analysis has gained considerable attention with recent challenges of the Year 2000 Date situation. As the software community recognizes the growing need to identify consequences of these changes, impact analysis is making its way into the software process. Dependencies between software life cycle objects are becoming more numerous and complex as many software systems grow beyond a million of lines of code. Software change efforts are plagued with widely varying estimates for implementing software changes, since the impacts of the change are not readily known in advance. The introduction of software change impact analysis into the software process adds more fidelity to software change visibility, enabling more accurate software change estimates. The paper examines where impact analysis is applied during software changes and describes how impact analysis can be addressed in the software process.
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