Title
Change Impact Analysis of Feature Models.
Abstract
Changeability is a fundamental property of software systems. Every software system must evolve at all levels of abstraction (models, architecture. source code, documentation, etc.) to meet changing user and context requirements. To assess the extent of a change, change impact analysis must be performed. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy of change aspects in feature modelling domain, and analyse changeability of feature models, a high level representation of system's external user-visible characteristics. We propose the change impact model based on a feature dependency matrix to assess validity of feature change, to follow feature change propagation and to estimate changeability of a feature model using a Jaccard distance measure. The model is implemented using Prolog logic rules. A case study is presented.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-33308-8_10
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature modelling,software evolution,changeability
Change impact analysis,Data mining,Computer science,Source code,Software system,Prolog,Feature model,Jaccard index,Software evolution,Rule of inference
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
319
1865-0929
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
25
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulius Paskevicius1111.15
Robertas Damasevicius228162.75
Vytautas Stuikys310217.07