'International Digital Organization for Scientific Information (IDOSI)'
Doi
Abstract
Software Change Impact Analysis (SCIA) has defined as a process of identifying the consequences
of the software changes requests. Almost no major corporations are free from the challenge of developing and
implementing successful strategies for managing change. Different studies have been conducted in this subject
for the last two decades, several approaches have been proposed. But most of these studies have less support
to the current process of a software change management. The complexities of software change development
nowadays cause the process of managing software change to be difficulty. There is major organizations that
are free from the challenges of initiating, developing and implementing effective software changes management.
As a result, software practitioners recognize that strategic change is not temporary issues but it’s continued
process. Only few project managers got the ability to manage the change efficiently. Therefore, this paper
investigates issues of change impact analysis process and identifies and compares current practice issues of
a software change impact analysis, by evaluating their strengths and weaknesses. It also reviews existing tools
and models of change impact analysis and how it supports to the current software change managements.
Hence, it proposes existing process issues and suggests the need of an effective process of software change
management
