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@incollection{Keller2012MaintenanceSoftwareModels,
author = {Keller, Anne and Serge Demeyer},
booktitle = {Emerging Technologies for the Evolution and
Maintenance of Software Models},
editor = {J\"org Rech and Christian Bunse},
pages = {32 -- 56},
publisher = {IGI Global},
title = {Change Impact Analysis for {UML} Model Maintenance},
year = {2012},
abstract = {Software maintenance is generally considered to be
the most costly phase in the software life-cycle. The
software system to be maintained consists of numerous
inter-dependent artifacts that inevitably undergo
various changes during maintenance. What makes
planning and executing these changes difficult is
that each change may have severe ``ripple effects''
to other points of the system that are difficult to
assess due to the inter-dependent nature of the
artifacts. The goal of this chapter is to introduce a
lightweight and accurate change impact analysis
technique for UML models. Impact analysis rules are
created that trace different relationships between
UML model elements depending on the type of change
applied. We will show that we can achieve good
accuracy. To validate the technique, a change
scenario that consists of changes that occur during
the resolution of inconsistencies between different
UML models (correc- tive maintenance) was chosen. The
validation is performed on two case studies, which
together contain approximately 5686 UML model element
instances on which 3287 inconsistencies are resolved.
The validation of the two case studies returns a mean
precision and recall of (0.77, 0.95) and (0.97,
0.93).},
annote = {bookchapter},
doi = {10.4018/978-1-61350-438-3.ch002},
}