SOFTWARE CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS FOR SENSITIVE APPLICATIONS

Abstract

With the software intensive systems growing at a rapid rate, the system safety controls have become completely software defined. Therefore, the impact analysis of Safety - involved systems become necessary, to take care of any software changes during the maintenance phases of such systems. However, there hasn't been much work done in this scope so far. So, through this thesis we propose a new tool to choose the appropriate approach for the software change impact analysis along with explaining the software IA concepts, describing its importance and providing an insight into its current hierarchy and classification. We also present the survey results based on a research methodology to get the practitioner's view point of Change IA. Keywords: SUT CIA, IA, Slicing, Program Analysis, Sensitive Application.