Prioritizing Change-Impact Analysis via Semantic Program-Dependence Quantification

• Published in: IEEE transactions on reliability Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 1114 - 1132
• Main Authors: Haipeng Cai, Santelices, Raul, Siyuan Jiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.09.2016; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Coarsening; Dependence quantification; Developers; execution differencing; History; Impact analysis; impact prediction; impact prioritization; Inspection; Java (programming language); Semantics; Sensitivity analysis; Slicing; Software; Source code; Syntactics

Software is constantly changing. To ensure the quality of this process, when preparing to change a program, developers must first identify the main consequences and risks of modifying the program locations they intend to change. This activity is called change-impact analysis. However, existing impac...