A Software Traceability Validation For Change Impact Analysis of Object Oriented Software.
Suhaimi Ibrahim, Norbik Bashah Idris, Malcolm Munro, Aziz Deraman · 2006
Abstract- Software traceability and its subsequent impact analysis help relate the consequences or ripple-effects of a proposed change across different levels of software system. Our software traceability approach can be observed at its ability to integrate the high level with the low level software models of object-oriented software that include the requirements, test cases, design and code. It supports the top down and bottom up traceability in response to tracing for the potential effects. The objective of this paper is to present our validation experiment on a case study of software embedded system. It determines the effectiveness of our approach via a prototype tool, called CATIA. The results reveal that the nature of the components at different traceability levels affect various aspects of effectiveness metrics.