A change impact analysis approach using visualization method

A software needs to be maintained whenever new requirements arise. A maintainer is responsible to change the code to ensure the software is more operational based on the changes. It is a fact that the change in some parts of the code will affect other parts within the same code that need to be chang...

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Main Author:	Mohamad, Rita Noremi
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	QA75 Electronic computers Computer science
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11505/6/RitaNoremiMohamadMFSKSM2010.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.115052017-09-18T07:22:54Z A change impact analysis approach using visualization method 2010-01 Mohamad, Rita Noremi QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science A software needs to be maintained whenever new requirements arise. A maintainer is responsible to change the code to ensure the software is more operational based on the changes. It is a fact that the change in some parts of the code will affect other parts within the same code that need to be changed and this requires the maintainer’s experience to understand the behavior of code implementation. However, it is difficult for new maintainers to understand the component dependencies within the code and it is worse when the current documentation is not updated and becomes obsolete. Hence, the only trustworthy source is the most recent version of the code that new maintainers need to master which requires familiarity of the software itself prior to any changes. This is unfortunately tedious and time consuming. Therefore, to reduce the burden, this research extended and enhanced Configuration Artifact Traceability Tool for Impact Analysis (CATIA) to improve understanding in visualization. A Change Impact Analysis (CIA) approach using visualization method is a proposed model to assist maintainers to understand and visualize the traceability of potential change impact. The visualization method was developed based on inheritance, friend, composition, calls and aggregation of program structure to support software change request and program understanding. A prototype tool called CIA-V was developed to support Object Oriented Programming written in C++ to implement potential change impact using visualization method. The model was then tested in controlled experiment using selected case study to prove traceability effectiveness of potential change impact via visualization method. 2010-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11505/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11505/6/RitaNoremiMohamadMFSKSM2010.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems Faculty of Computer Science and Information System
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language	English
topic	QA75 Electronic computers Computer science
spellingShingle	QA75 Electronic computers Computer science Mohamad, Rita Noremi A change impact analysis approach using visualization method
description	A software needs to be maintained whenever new requirements arise. A maintainer is responsible to change the code to ensure the software is more operational based on the changes. It is a fact that the change in some parts of the code will affect other parts within the same code that need to be changed and this requires the maintainer’s experience to understand the behavior of code implementation. However, it is difficult for new maintainers to understand the component dependencies within the code and it is worse when the current documentation is not updated and becomes obsolete. Hence, the only trustworthy source is the most recent version of the code that new maintainers need to master which requires familiarity of the software itself prior to any changes. This is unfortunately tedious and time consuming. Therefore, to reduce the burden, this research extended and enhanced Configuration Artifact Traceability Tool for Impact Analysis (CATIA) to improve understanding in visualization. A Change Impact Analysis (CIA) approach using visualization method is a proposed model to assist maintainers to understand and visualize the traceability of potential change impact. The visualization method was developed based on inheritance, friend, composition, calls and aggregation of program structure to support software change request and program understanding. A prototype tool called CIA-V was developed to support Object Oriented Programming written in C++ to implement potential change impact using visualization method. The model was then tested in controlled experiment using selected case study to prove traceability effectiveness of potential change impact via visualization method.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Mohamad, Rita Noremi
author_facet	Mohamad, Rita Noremi
author_sort	Mohamad, Rita Noremi
title	A change impact analysis approach using visualization method
title_short	A change impact analysis approach using visualization method
title_full	A change impact analysis approach using visualization method
title_fullStr	A change impact analysis approach using visualization method
title_full_unstemmed	A change impact analysis approach using visualization method
title_sort	change impact analysis approach using visualization method
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems
granting_department	Faculty of Computer Science and Information System
publishDate	2010
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/11505/6/RitaNoremiMohamadMFSKSM2010.pdf
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