BECIA: a behaviour engineering-based approach for change impact analysis

Abstract

This paper introduces Behaviour Engineering-based Change Impact Analysis (BECIA), a novel approach to Change Impact Analysis (CIA). BECIA enables visualization of change impacts from modified requirements on architecture design. It also introduces the Change Impact Indicator (CII) metric, quantifying impact by calculating the Kolmogorov Complexity (KC) of design models. Our contributions include: an algorithm to convert behavior trees to composition trees, a requirements components dependency network, and a metric for quantifying change impacts.