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@INPROCEEDINGS{Hassaine11-ICSM-ChangeImpactSeismology,
   AUTHOR       = {Salima Hassaine and Ferdaous Boughanmi and 
      Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc and Sylvie Hamel and Giuliano Antoniol},
   BOOKTITLE    = {Proceedings of the 27<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)},
   TITLE        = {A Seismology-inspired Approach for Change Impact 
      Analysis},
   YEAR         = {2011},
   OPTADDRESS   = {},
   OPTCROSSREF  = {},
   EDITOR       = {James R. Cordy and Paolo Tonella},
   MONTH        = {September},
   NOTE         = {10 pages.},
   OPTNUMBER    = {},
   OPTORGANIZATION = {},
   PAGES        = {53--62},
   PUBLISHER    = {IEEE CS Press},
   OPTSERIES    = {},
   OPTVOLUME    = {},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Evolution patterns</b>, Venue: <c>ICSM</c>, 
      Venue: <c>ICSME</c>},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/ICSM11b.doc.pdf},
   PDF          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/ICSM11b.ppt.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {Change impact analysis aims at identifying software 
      artefacts that are being affected by a change. It helps developers to 
      assess their change efforts and perform more adequate changes. 
      Several approaches have been proposed to aid in impact analysis. 
      However, to the best of our knowledge, none of these approaches have 
      been used to study the scope of changes in a program. We present a 
      metaphor inspired by seismology and propose a mapping between the 
      concepts of seismology and change propagation, to study the scope of 
      change propagation. We perform three case studies on Pooka, Rhino, 
      and Xerces-J to observe change propagation. We use ANOVA and Duncan 
      statistical tests to assess the statistically significance of our 
      observations, which show that changes propagate to a limited scope.}
}