RIPPLES: Tool for Change in Legacy Software

  • Authors:
  • Kunrong Chen;Vaclav Rajlich

  • Affiliations:
  • Wayne State University;Wayne State University

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Key parts of software change are concept location and change propagation. We introduce a tool RIPPLES that supports both. It uses the Abstract System Dependence Graph (ASDG) of the program, enriched by conceptual dependencies. A case study of NCSA Mosaic demonstrates the use of the tool. Precision and recall are used to evaluate the quality of support provided by RIPPLES.