Change Impact Analysis of a Software Process Using Process Slicing

A software process needs to be changed for various reasons during or before its enactment. To accommodate the change in the software process, it is necessary to analyze the impacts of the change. Few researches provide the methods to structurally analyze the impacts of the change for a software process or workflow with limitations. In this paper, we propose an approach to analyzing the impacts of the software process change using process slicing. Process slicing is designed to formally operate on the software process considering multi-perspectives of the software process such as behavioral, informational, and organizational perspectives. Process slicing produces the process slice, which is the part of the software process related to the change. Process slicing can be automatically performed resulting in making a project manager enable to reduce the effort to identify the impacts of the change.