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Software Change Management: A Note on Significance, Tools and Support

by Sunbal Siddique, Ali Siddique
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 177 - Number 34
Year of Publication: 2020
Authors: Sunbal Siddique, Ali Siddique
10.5120/ijca2020919820

Sunbal Siddique, Ali Siddique . Software Change Management: A Note on Significance, Tools and Support. International Journal of Computer Applications. 177, 34 ( Jan 2020), 59-62. DOI=10.5120/ijca2020919820

@article{ 10.5120/ijca2020919820,
author = { Sunbal Siddique, Ali Siddique },
title = { Software Change Management: A Note on Significance, Tools and Support },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Jan 2020 },
volume = { 177 },
number = { 34 },
month = { Jan },
year = { 2020 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 59-62 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume177/number34/31127-2020919820/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2020919820 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%P 59-62
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Requirements management is an essential part of software engineering. The changes occurring in the requirements of the software, if not handled properly, can lead to catastrophic failures. It is due to this reason that the proper management of requirements change is considered a critical part of software development. In this paper, a brief review on change management in requirements is presented. Moreover, general concepts of requirements change management are elaborated alongwith the information on related tools that are available for different aspects of requirements change management activities in the market. Last but not least, various tools proposed by different researchers on several categories of requirements change management are compared with each other. It has been observed that ‘requirements traceability’ tools are discussed more frequently in the literature than others, and find more support than other classes of requirements change management.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Change Impact Analysis Distributed Software Development Features Tree Global Software Development Requirements Traceability