Dependency based technique for identifying the ripple effect of requirements evolution

Journal of Software

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 544-550

  Yan, YuQing ^a,b   Li, ShiXian ^a   Sun, WeiJun ^a,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (China)

^c GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dependency; Requirements evolution; Ripple effects

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY; FIRST LOOK; GENERIC ALGORITHM; IMPACT ANALYSIS; JACKSON; MATRIX THEORY; REQUIREMENTS CHANGE; REQUIREMENTS EVOLUTION; RIPPLE EFFECTS; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLES; STRUCTURED ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84859147097     PISSN: 1796217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jsw.7.3.544-550     Document Type: Article

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