Towards a taxonomy of software change

Buckley, Jim; Mens, Tom; Zenger, Matthias; Rashid, Awais; Kniesel, Günter

doi:10.1002/smr.319

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“…Buckley et al [12] classify changes as semantics-preserving and semantics-modifying. This classification concerns the semantics of software components, such as type hierarchy, scoping, visibility, accessibility, and overriding relationships.…”

Section: Rationale Of Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, a requirement may be decomposed into multiple requirements. These changes are semantics-preserving according to [12] and we consider their rationale as refactoring (see [30] for refactoring).…”

Section: Rationale Of Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Buckley et al [12] classify change types in software systems as structural and semantic changes. Another distinction is semanticspreserving and semantics-modifying changes.…”

Section: Change Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another distinction is semanticspreserving and semantics-modifying changes. Our classification for the change rationale is based on [12] and adapted to requirements.…”

Section: Change Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Change impact analysis for requirements: A metamodeling approach

Göknil

Kurtev²,

Berg

et al. 2014

Information and Software Technology

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a b s t r a c tContext: Following the evolution of the business needs, the requirements of software systems change continuously and new requirements emerge frequently. Requirements documents are often textual artifacts with structure not explicitly given. When a change in a requirements document is introduced, the requirements engineer may have to manually analyze all the requirements for a single change. This may result in neglecting the actual impact of a change. Consequently, the cost of implementing a change may become several times higher than expected. Objective: In this paper, we aim at improving change impact analysis in requirements by using formal semantics of requirements relations and requirements change types. Method: In our previous work we present a requirements metamodel with commonly used requirements relation types and their semantics formalized in first-order logic. In this paper the classification of requirements changes based on structure of a textual requirement is provided with formal semantics. The formalization of requirements relations and changes is used for propagating proposed changes and consistency checking of proposed changes in requirements models. The tool support for change impact analysis in requirements models is an extension of our Tool for Requirements Inferencing and Consistency Checking (TRIC). Results: The described approach for change impact analysis helps in the elimination of some false positive impacts in change propagation, and enables consistency checking of changes. Conclusion: We illustrate our approach in an example which shows that the formal semantics of requirements relations and change classification enables change alternatives to be proposed semi-automatically, the reduction of some false positive impacts and contradicting changes in requirements to be determined.

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Section: Rationale Of Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Rationale Of Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Buckley et al [12] classify change types in software systems as structural and semantic changes. Another distinction is semanticspreserving and semantics-modifying changes.…”

Section: Change Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another distinction is semanticspreserving and semantics-modifying changes. Our classification for the change rationale is based on [12] and adapted to requirements.…”

Section: Change Classificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Change impact analysis for requirements: A metamodeling approach

Göknil

Kurtev²,

Berg

et al. 2014

Information and Software Technology

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“…There are taxonomies of software evolution or sub-fields, e.g. Buckley et al [16], which aid the organization of the field, but do not provide an in-depth survey of relevant techniques.…”

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SENSEI: Software evolution service integration

Jelschen

2014

2014 Software Evolution Week - IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering, and Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE)

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Abstract-Software evolution tools mostly implement a single technique to assist in achieving a specific objective. Overhauling, renovating, or migrating large and complex legacy software systems require the proper combination of several different techniques appropriate for each subtask. Since few tools are built for interoperability, the setup of a toolchain supporting a given software evolution process is an elaborate, time-consuming, errorprone, and redundant endeavor, which yields brittle and inflexible toolchains with little to no reusability. This paper presents SENSEI, an approach to enable the implementation of an integration framework for software evolution tools using component-based, service-oriented, and model-driven methods, to ease toolchain creation and enable agile execution of software evolution projects. It will be evaluated by implementing and using it to build the toolchains supporting two software evolution projects, and having practitioners assess its usefulness.

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Taxonomy of Software Maintenance and Evolution

2014

Software Evolution and Maintenance

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Towards a taxonomy of software change

Cited by 179 publications

References 39 publications

Change impact analysis for requirements: A metamodeling approach

Change impact analysis for requirements: A metamodeling approach

SENSEI: Software evolution service integration

Taxonomy of Software Maintenance and Evolution

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