Approach of dynamic change impact analysis on software architecture
Ran Hong-min · Journal of Jilin University · 2011
A component interaction trace based approach is proposed to support dynamic change impact analysis at software architecture level.To a given architectural change,our approach determines the architecture elements causing the change and impacted by the change,and generates regression test case suite.Firstly,composition based software architecture and component interaction trace are defined.An algorithm for generating component interaction trace from static structure model of software architecture and sequence diagram is provided.Secondly,the taxonomy of changes on software architecture is presented,according to which a set of impact rules are suggested to determine the transfer of the changes in component and among components.