Managing Change in COTS-Based Systems

  • Authors:
  • Gerald Kotonya;John Hutchinson

  • Affiliations:
  • Lancaster University;Lancaster University

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Traditional software engineering change management approaches are inadequate for addressing the unique challenges presented by the component-based systems. Current change management techniques view the system under development as a collection of mutable sub-components, known to the developer and whose interrelationships and development histories are described in a change management system. This contrasts with a component-based view of a system comprising potentially many interconnected, immutable, black-box components.This contrast represents the fundamentally different change management tasks associated with component-based development. We propose a novel architecture-centric approach that combines a process model with a dedicated ADL to provide a framework for change impact analysis.