On the impact of evolving requirements-architecture dependencies: An exploratory study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5074 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 243-257

  Khan, Safoora Shakil ^a   Greenwood, Phil ^a   Garcia, Alessandro ^a   Rashid, Awais ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change impact analysis; Dependency analysis; Software architecture; Traceability

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; E-LEARNING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MODAL ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CO); ANALYSIS MODELS; ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; EVOLUTION (CO); EXPLORATORY STUDIES; HEIDELBERG (CO); HISTORY ANALYSIS; IN ORDER; INTER-DEPENDENCIES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS; RIPPLE EFFECTS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SPRINGER (CO); WEB-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 45849134532     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69534-9_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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