CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS APPROACH IN A CLASS HIERARCHY

Khine Khine Oo

2005

Abstract

Change impact analysis is a technique for determining the potential effects of changes on a software system. As software system evolves, changes made to those systems can have unintended impacts elsewhere. Although, object-oriented features such as encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and dynamic binding contribute to the reusability and extensibility of systems. However, we have to face the more difficult to identify the effected components due to changes because there exits complex dependencies between classes and attributes. In this paper, we propose change impact analysis approach for a class hierarchy. Our approach is based on the program slicing techniques to extract the impact program fragment with respect to the slicing criterion of change information but aim to minimize unexpected side effects of change. We believe that our impact analysis approach provides the software developer in their maintaining process as well as debugging and testing processes.

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Khine Oo K. (2005). CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS APPROACH IN A CLASS HIERARCHY . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 465-468. DOI: 10.5220/0002555604650468


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@conference{iceis05,
author={Khine Khine Oo},
title={CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS APPROACH IN A CLASS HIERARCHY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={465-468},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002555604650468},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS APPROACH IN A CLASS HIERARCHY
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Khine Oo K.
PY - 2005
SP - 465
EP - 468
DO - 10.5220/0002555604650468