ImpalaDynamic: analisador de impacto de mudanças em código de software.

Abstract

During the software development process, the maintenance phase cosumes about 50% or more of the project’s total cost. This high cost is related to the activities of planning and implementing changes that usually happen at that stage. The Change Impact Analysis is the area of Software Engineering responsible for identifying possible consequences of a change in the system. This paper aims to develop a tool that suports change impact analysis in object-oriented software code. ImpalaDynamic is the tool that performs static analysis and consider its result through dynamic analysis. Its main goal is identify dynamic dependences not found by the structural code analysis, increasing the analysis accuracy, help the cost’s estimation of a change before its implemention and thus allow he evolution of a software to made in a more controlled way.