Context Software requirements are often not set in concrete at the start of a software
development project; and requirements changes become necessary and sometimes …

Background: Originally, developers aimed to identify most software requirements upfront in
software development projects. However, agile methods explicitly encourage software …

Software requirements Change Impact Analysis (CIA) is a pivotal process in requirements
engineering (RE) since changes to requirements are inevitable. When a requirement …

Featured Application Industry case study from the automotive industry and five development
projects. Abstract Requirement changes and cascading effects of change propagation are …

Technical debt is the trading of long-term software quality in favor of short-term expediency.
While the concept has traditionally been applied to tradeoffs at the code and architecture …

Abstract Changes to software requirements not only pose a risk to the successful delivery of
software applications but also provide opportunity for improved usability and value …

Innovative companies need an agile approach towards product and service requirements, to
rapidly respond to and exploit changing conditions. The agile approach to requirements …

Innovative companies need an agile approach for the engineering of their product
requirements, to rapidly respond to and exploit changing conditions. The agile approach to …

Abstract This paper introduces Behaviour Engineering-based Change Impact Analysis
(BECIA), a novel approach to Change Impact Analysis (CIA). BECIA enables visualization of …

Changes play a central role in software evolution, where the types of changes are as
multifarious as their consequences. When changing software, impact analysis and …