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Chapter 17
Example of
Software Change
Objectives
is chapter illustrates the phases of a software change that are parts of the pro-
cess explained in the second part of this book (chapters 5–11). While reading this
chapter, you will see an example of a complete software change that consists of the
following phases:
◾ Finding the significant concepts of the change request
◾ Concept location by dependency search
◾ Impact analysis
◾ Actualization by creation of a new component
◾ Testing the changed code
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