An initial evaluation of requirements dependency types in change propagation analysis

IET Seminar Digest

Volumn 2012, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 62-71

  Li, Juan ^a   Zhu, Liming ^b,c   Jeffery, Ross ^b,c   Liu, Yan ^d   Zhang, He ^b   Wang, Qing ^a   Li, Mingshu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

change propagation; impact analysis; requirements dependency; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS; CHANGE PROPAGATION; DEPENDENCY MODEL; IMPACT ANALYSIS; INDUSTRY PROJECT; LEVEL CHANGE; PROJECT MANAGERS; REQUIREMENTS DEPENDENCY; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

RESEARCH;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84865479981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1049/ic.2012.0009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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