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Change impact analysis with a goal‐driven traceability‐based approach
Author(s) -
Lee WenTin,
Deng WhanYo,
Lee Jonathan,
Lee ShinJie
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of intelligent systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.291
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1098-111X
pISSN - 0884-8173
DOI - 10.1002/int.20443
Subject(s) - requirements traceability , traceability , computer science , change impact analysis , requirements analysis , relation (database) , requirements management , software engineering , goal modeling , non functional requirement , requirements engineering , systems engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , software , requirement , software system , data mining , engineering , software construction , medicine , programming language
Recently, the growing popularity of requirements engineering attracts an increasing attention on requirements traceability and change impact analysis, which also imposes a great demand for a systematic approach in developing software systems to handling traceability relations and requirements changes in an automatic manner. In this work, a goal‐driven requirements traceability approach is proposed to develop and manage requirements changes along three dimensions: (1) to develop software and manage requirements based on the goal‐driven use case (GDUC) approach, (2) to establish and maintain the traceability relation with a design structure matrix (DSM) to derive the traceability tree, and (3) to analyze requirements change impacts through the partitioning of DSM into blocks to serve as a basis for calculating use case points. The proposed approach is illustrated by a benchmark problem domain of a meeting scheduler system. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.