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Analyzing the Impact of Changing Requirements

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ICSM '01: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)

Page 190

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2001.972729

Published: 07 November 2001 Publication History

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Determining the impact of requirement changes on software development is critical to project management. We present an impact analysis method to evaluate requirement changes for software development projects that is based on requirements traceability. By using attributes of the work products and traces, we create classes of requirement changes prioritized according to the potential impact. We present a case study that shows a favorable comparison between the actual impact and the predicted impact. Finally, we discuss the expansion of the method.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/stvr.1500
Brier JRapanotti LHall JHall JRapanotti LCox KJin Z(2006)Problem-based analysis of organisational changeProceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Advances and applications of problem frames10.1145/1138670.1138674(13-18)Online publication date: 23-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1138670.1138674

Index Terms

Analyzing the Impact of Changing Requirements
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
        Software maintenance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
    2. Software post-development issues

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Srikanth HBanerjee SWilliams LOsborne J(2014)Towards the prioritization of system test casesSoftware Testing, Verification & Reliability10.1002/stvr.150024:4(320-337)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/stvr.1500
Brier JRapanotti LHall JHall JRapanotti LCox KJin Z(2006)Problem-based analysis of organisational changeProceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Advances and applications of problem frames10.1145/1138670.1138674(13-18)Online publication date: 23-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1138670.1138674

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