To avoid unnecessary maintenance costs in large IT systems resulting from poorly planned changes, it is essential to manage and control changes to the system and to verify that all...
Impact analysis – determining the potential effects of changes on a software system – plays an important role in helping engineers re-validate modified software. In previous ...
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is gaining popularity with the wider adoption of languages such as AspectJ. During AspectJ software evolution, when regression tests fail, it may...
Modification analysis is part of most maintenance processes and includes among other activities, early prediction of potential change impacts, feasibility studies, cost estimation...
Major software development standards mandate the establishment of trace links among software artifacts such as requirements, architectural elements, or source code without explici...
Alexander Egyed, Stefan Biffl, Matthias Heindl, Pa...