Software Change Impact Analysis

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

An Introduction to Software Change Impact Analysis.

Chapter 1. Nature of Impact Analysis.

A Process Model for Software Maintenance.

Impact Analysis-Towards A Framework for Comparison.

The Year 2000 Problem: Impact, Strategies, and Tools.

Chapter 2. State of the Practice.

An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem.

Software Change Impact Analysis for Design Evolution.

Configuration Management Survey.

Chapter 3. Automated Support for Impact Analysis.

The Integrated CASE Manifesto.

Practical Software Maintenance Environment.

Intelligent Assistance for Software Development and Maintenance.

Maintenance Support for Object-Oriented Programs.

Chapter 4. Dependency-Analysis Approaches.

Using Dependence Analysis to Support the Software Maintenance Process.

Interprocedural Slicing Using Dependence Graphs.

Data Dependency Graphs for Ada Programs.

Data Flow Analysis and its Application to Software Maintenance.

Change Impact Identification in Object Oriented Software Maintenance.

Chapter 5. Traceability Approaches.

A Hypertext System to Manage Software Life-Cycle Documents.

SODOS: A Software Documentation Support Environment-Its Definition.

Traceability Based on Design Decisions.

A Process for Consolidating and Reusing Design Knowledge.

Chapter 6. Impact Representation.

The Prism Model of Changes.

A Unified Interprocedural Program Representation for a Maintenance Environment.

A Formal Model of Program Dependences and Its Implications for Software Testing, Debugging, and Maintenance.

A Graph Model for Software Evolution.

Chapter 7. Impact-Determination Techniques.

An Early Impact Analysis Technique for Software Maintenance.

Using Program Slicing in Software Maintenance.

Efficient Algorithms for the Instantiated Transitive Closure Queries.

Approximate Reasoning About the Semantic Effects of Program Changes.

Chapter 8. Final Remarks.

Annotated Bibliography.

Authors Biographies.