University of Groningen Proposing and empirically validating change impact analysis metrics Arvanitou, Elvira Maria

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Proposing and empirically validating change impact analysis metrics

Arvanitou, Elvira Maria

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Index

1061 IEEE Standard for

Software Quality Metrics, 107, 115, 122, 147, 166, 186

architecture level, VII, 9, 11, 13, 14, 18, 59, 162, 163, 164, 168, 169, 177, 178, 180, 186, 220, 221, 222

artifacts, VI, VII, VIII, 4, 5, 6, 11, 15, 22, 30, 59, 65, 69, 70, 75, 90, 96, 112, 139, 140, 142, 162, 163, 166, 182, 185, 186, 188, 223 Association, 51, 55, 69, 118 case study, 15, 16, 19, 73, 77, 80, 85, 86, 90, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 125, 126, 127, 135, 136, 137, 139, 141, 142, 146, 147, 148, 152, 159, 161, 162, 165, 169, 170, 172, 178, 180, 181, 183, 196, 197, 214, 215, 216, 237, 241, 257, 258

Change impact analysis, II, VI, 6, 114, 217, 238

Change Impact Analysis, 6, 181, 186, 250, 257, 259

change proneness, VI, VII, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 48, 53, 69, 119, 128, 135, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 149, 150, 152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 251 Change Proneness, 139, 162, 181 Change Proneness Measure

(CPM), IV, VIII, 141, 220, 222 class, VII, VIII, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 18,

19, 29, 76, 79, 80, 81, 85, 86, 89, 90, 96, 99, 100, 107, 112, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144, 145, 147, 149, 150, 152, 154, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 163, 164, 165, 168, 169, 177, 178, 184, 185, 186, 188, 190, 192, 193, 196, 202, 221, 222, 223, 229, 230, 231, 233, 235, 237, 238, 249, 255 coarse-grained, VII, 11, 17, 18, 219 Consistency, 45, 47, 49, 51, 78, 122, 129, 130, 131, 133, 150, 151, 152, 153, 156, 157, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176 Containment, 118 Correlation, 78, 108, 122, 129, 130, 131, 133, 150, 151, 152, 153, 156, 172, 173, 174, 175, 202, 258 coupling, VII, 13, 21, 22, 27, 44, 45, 62, 64, 75, 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 85, 96, 100, 102, 103, 104, 111, 115, 116, 117, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 140, 141, 142, 143, 146, 147, 150, 158, 164, 165, 166, 169, 170, 177, 180, 184, 186, 221, 222, 223, 230, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236, 254 dependencies, VIII, 13, 75, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 128, 134, 137, 140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 146, 158, 160, 161, 162, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 177, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184, 188, 214, 218, 262 design-time quality attributes,

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Discriminative Power, 122, 129, 130, 131, 151, 152, 155, 156, 172, 173, 175, 176, 213, 229

empirical validation process, 114 external probability to change, 6, 143, 166, 185, 187, 188, 189, 190 Generalization, 118 high-level, 1, 21, 45, 53, 54, 59, 74, 75, 82, 159, 178, 185, 189, 190, 215, 229, 230 history of changes, 139, 140, 146, 162, 164

instability, VI, VII, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 18, 115, 117, 119, 128, 141, 142, 163, 165, 177, 184, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 229, 249 Instability, 114

internal probability to change, 143, 166, 185, 187, 190, 192, 193 large-scale changes, 11, 221 low-level quality attributes, 21,

62 maintainability, VII, 4, 11, 13, 17, 18, 21, 22, 28, 30, 32, 39, 41, 44, 45, 46, 48, 51, 53, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 72, 79, 180, 186, 219, 221, 229, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 239, 252, 253, 258, 259, 261, 262 maintainability predictors, 11, 79, 219, 221 mapping study, 17, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 39, 44, 49, 57, 60, 61, 62, 70, 71, 72, 140, 163, 184, 221, 249, 253, 256, 260, 261 Merging of Classes, 122, 124 metrics, VI, VII, VIII, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9,

10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 49, 50, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 90, 91, 92, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134, 135, 136, 138, 141, 142, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 169, 170, 172, 176, 177, 178, 180, 184, 186, 193, 201, 211, 215, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 249, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 262 module change proneness

measure (MCPM), 167 Monotonicity, 77, 122, 123 Normalization and

Non-Negativity, 77, 121, 123 Null Value and Maximum

Value, 77, 121, 123 package, VIII, 11, 162, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 180, 184, 186, 220, 222, 232 Predictability, 52, 78, 122, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 151, 152, 154, 156, 172, 173, 175 propagation factor, 115, 119, 128, 141, 143, 144, 145, 150, 166, 168, 185, 190, 191, 192, 193, 196, 205 quality attributes, VII, 1, 2, 4, 10, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 53, 54, 62, 64, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 79,

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80, 81, 102, 110, 113, 140, 163, 183, 184, 219, 220, 223, 229, 256 Quality attributes, 1, 22, 47, 48, 69 quality models, 1, 29, 30, 32, 44, 45, 232, 237, 238, 252, 256, 262 Reliability, 3, 47, 78, 123, 126, 129, 130, 132, 147, 151, 152, 155, 156, 157, 170, 172, 175, 176, 217, 226, 228, 251, 254

requirements, II, III, VI, VII, VIII, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 18, 22, 23, 41, 58, 65, 70, 82, 83, 86, 139, 140, 142, 143, 157, 161, 166, 177, 178, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 197, 198, 200, 201, 202, 203, 205, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 223, 224, 230, 231, 232, 238, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 253, 262

Requirements Ripple Effect Metric (R2EM), 14, 183, 187, 220, 223 ripple effect, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 144, 145, 146, 157, 167, 181, 183, 184, 185, 188, 191, 195, 196, 200, 201, 205, 213, 214, 215, 216, 218, 223, 230, 250, 251

Ripple Effect Measure (REM), IV, VIII, 13, 115, 118, 137, 141, 145, 168, 220, 222 small-scale changes, 75, 221 software evolution, 75, 78, 100, 139 software metrics, 1, 27, 28, 40, 49, 57, 58, 78, 79, 86, 99, 102, 113, 139, 230, 232, 233, 236, 237, 255, 259, 260 software quality, 1, 2, 4, 21, 26, 27, 29, 33, 42, 44, 49, 74, 75, 79, 101, 110, 113, 139, 234, 237, 238, 256, 258, 260

source code level, VIII, 59, 65, 79, 90, 96, 103, 162, 190, 197, 217, 218

Test case prioritization, 181 Tracking, 78, 122, 129, 130, 131,

133, 151, 152, 154, 156, 157, 172, 173, 175, 176