Change-Oriented Requirements Traceability: Support for Evolution of Embedded Systems

  • Authors:
  • A. von Knethen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '02 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Planning of requirements changes is often inaccurateand implementation of changes is time consuming anderror prone. One reason for these problems is impreciseand inefficient approaches to analyze the impact ofchanges. This thesis proposes a precise and efficientimpact analysis approach that focuses on functional systemrequirements changes of embedded control systems. Itconsists of three parts: (1) a fine-grained conceptual tracemodel, (2) process descriptions of how to establish tracesand how to analyze the impact of changes, and (3)supporting tools. Empirical investigation shows that theapproach has a beneficial effect on the effectiveness andefficiency of impact analyses and that it supports a moreconsistent implementation of changes.