Assessing Changeability by Investigating the Propagation of...

Assessing Changeability by Investigating the Propagation of Change Types

inproceedings
Beat Fluri
We propose an approach to build a changeability assessment model for source code entities. Based on this model, we will assess the changeability of evolving software systems. The changeability assessment is based on a taxonomy of more than 30 change types and a classification of these in terms of change significance levels for consecutive versions of software entities. We consider change type propagation on different levels of granularity ranging from method changes to interface and class changes. We claim that this kind of assessment is effective in pointing to potential causes of maintainability problems in evolving software systems.
Assessing Changeability by Investigating the Propagation of Change Types
2007
IEEE Computer Society
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering
May
97--98
s.e.a.l.