combining concept lattice with call graph for impact analysis

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	combining concept lattice with call graph for impact analysis
	Li Bixin ; Sun Xiaobing ; Leung Hareton
刊名	Advances in Engineering Software
	2012
卷号	53 页码:40921
ISSN号	9659978
英文摘要	Software change impact analysis (CIA) is a key technique to identify unexpected and potential effects caused by software changes. Given a changed entity, most of current CIA techniques compute the change effect composed of some potentially impacted entities. The generated results are often of no help to the maintainers in starting the analysis of impacted entities. In this article, we combine concept lattice with call graph together to obtain a ranked list of potentially impacted methods from the proposed changed methods and/or classes. These impacted methods are ranked based on the hierarchical feature of concept lattice, represented by an impact factor, which can then be used to prioritize these methods to be inspected. Case studies based on four real-world programs show that our approach can improve the precision of the impact result without severely decreasing its recall, when compared with results from either concept lattice or call graph used independently. In addition, the predicted impacted methods with higher impact factor values are also shown to have higher probability to be affected by the changes. Our study also shows that our approach is better than the JRipples CIA approach in removing the false-positives, but at the cost of losing more false-negatives and much more time overhead. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
收录类别	EI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000309787300001
公开日期	2012-11-12
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.iscas.ac.cn/handle/311060/14721]
专题	软件研究所_软件所图书馆_期刊论文
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li Bixin,Sun Xiaobing,Leung Hareton. combining concept lattice with call graph for impact analysis[J]. Advances in Engineering Software,2012,53:40921.
APA	Li Bixin,Sun Xiaobing,&Leung Hareton.(2012).combining concept lattice with call graph for impact analysis.Advances in Engineering Software,53,40921.
MLA	Li Bixin,et al."combining concept lattice with call graph for impact analysis".Advances in Engineering Software 53(2012):40921.