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05832484 Lee, Wen-Tin Deng, Whan-Yo Lee, Jonathan Lee, Shin-Jie Change impact analysis with a goal-driven traceability-based approach. Int. J. Intell. Syst. 25, No. 8, 878-908 (2010). 2010 John Wiley \& Sons, Inc., New York, NY EN

doi:10.1002/int.20443

Summary: Recently, the growing popularity of requirements engineering attracts an increasing attention on requirements traceability and change impact analysis, which also imposes a great demand for a systematic approach in developing software systems to handling traceability relations and requirements changes in an automatic manner. In this work, a goal-driven requirements traceability approach is proposed to develop and manage requirements changes along three dimensions: (1) to develop software and manage requirements based on the goal-driven use case (GDUC) approach, (2) to establish and maintain the traceability relation with a design structure matrix (DSM) to derive the traceability tree, and (3) to analyze requirements change impacts through the partitioning of DSM into blocks to serve as a basis for calculating use case points. The proposed approach is illustrated by a benchmark problem domain of a meeting scheduler system.