Automated Change Impact Analysis between SysML Models of Requirements and Design

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Automated Change Impact Analysis
between SysML Models of
Requirements and Design
Shiva Nejati, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh,
Chetan Arora, Lionel Briand, Felix Mandoux
November 15, 2016

Change Impact Analysis (CIA)
`Ìdentifying the potential consequences of a change or
estimating what needs to be modified to accomplish a change’’

Bohner and Arnold, 1996
``The evaluation of the many risks associated with the change,
including estimates of the effects on resources, effort, and
schedule’’

Pfleeger and Atlee, 2006

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Scope
• Automotive
• Standards, e.g., ISO 26262
• Compliance required by customers
• Rigorous change management
• Change Impact Analysis (CIA)
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Design
Requirements

System-Level CIA
•  INCOSE System engineering
roles include requirements
owner and customer interface
•  System engineers are
responsible for assessing and
handling customer
requirements change requests
•  Change impact analysis
solutions have to be deﬁned at
system-level
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System Engineer
SW
Engineer
HW
Engineer
Customer

Supporting CIA
• Step 1: Devise a methodology to capture requirements and
design, and traceability from requirements to design

• Step 2: Develop automated support for CIA using the models
and traceability links built in Step 1.
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CIA Automation Goal
• Given a change in a requirement, our goal is to compute a set
of (potentially) impacted design elements that includes
• all the actually impacted elements (high recall)
• very few non-impacted elements (high precision)
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Modeling
• Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
• A subset of UML extended with systems engineering
diagrams
• A standard for systems engineering
• Preliminary support for requirement analysis and built-in
traceability mechanism

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Traceability
•  Requirements to design traceability
•  It captures the rationale of design decisions
•  What is rationale?
•  Level of granularity?
•  Traceability is expensive
•  Its precision affects the precision of impact analysis
•  Trade-off
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Is SysML Enough?
•  Do we have proper guidelines for establishing traceability links?
•  SysML is only a notation and needs a methodology
•  Are the built-in SysML traceability links capable of addressing our needs?
•  New traceability links
•  Specialized semantics of existing ones: Reﬁne, decompose, derive …
•  Explicit and implicit traceability
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Artifacts
• Textual information: requirements text, change rationale
statements
• Design:
• SysML structure: Internal Block Diagrams (HW, SW)
• SysML behavior: Activity Diagrams for SW blocks
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:Over-Temperature
Monitor
:Diagnostics
Manager
:Diagnostics and
Status Signal
Generation
:Digital to Analog
Converter
:DC Motor
Controller
:Temperature
Processor
<<requirement>>"
Over-Temperature
Detection"
(R11)
<<requirement>>"
Operational
Temperature Range"
(R12)
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
<<satisfy>>
<<satisfy>>
Internal Block Diagrams (IBD)

Diagnostics Manager
<<Decision>>"
Is position valid?
<<Decision>>"
Over-Temperature
detected?
<<Assignment>>"
Error = 1
B3
<<Assignment>>"
MotorDriveMode = OFF
<<Assignment>>"
MotorDriveMode = RUN
[yes]
[no]
[yes]
[no]
Activity Diagrams (AD)

Traceability Information Model
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RequirementsStructure
Requirement
Block
Software block
Port
Activity diagram
satisfy
*
* origin
target
*
Out
Hardware block
behaviour
Transition
Node
1..* Action
Object
Control Object CallAssignment
Parameter
Local
In
source
1..*
Decision
target
*
1 1
connector
Behaviour
Software
requirement
Hardware
requirement
in
out
correspond
DataControl
1..*
*
*
1
1
*
Explicit
traceability links

Our CIA Approach
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Structural
Analysis
Behavioral
Analysis
Natural
Language
Processing
Analysis

Approach
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Build SysML
Models
System "
Requirements
Traceability "
Information Model
Requirements and "
Design Models
Estimated "
Impact Set
Compute
Impacted
Elements
Change "
Statements
Phrases
Similarity"
Matrix
Process Change
Statements
Sort"
Elements
Sorted"
Elements

Case Study
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Electronic Variable Cam Phaser (CP)
•  Includes mechanical,
electronic and software
components
•  Adjusts the timing of cam
lobes with respect to that
of the crank shaft in an
engine, while the engine is
running.
•  CP is safety-critical and
subject to the ISO 26262
standard.

Motivating Scenario"

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Example Change Requests:
•  Change to R11: Change over temperature detection level to 147 C from 110 C
•  Change to R12: Temperature range should be extended to -40/150 C from -20/120 C

:Over-Temperature
Monitor
:Diagnostics
Manager
:Diagnostics and
Status Signal
Generation
:Digital to Analog
Converter
:DC Motor
Controller
:Temperature
Processor
<<requirement>>"
Over-Temperature
Detection"
(R11)
<<requirement>>"
Operational
Temperature Range"
(R12)
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
Change to R11: Change over temperature detection level to 147 C
from 110 C.

:Over-Temperature
Monitor
:Diagnostics
Manager
:Diagnostics and
Status Signal
Generation
:Digital to Analog
Converter
:DC Motor
Controller
:Temperature
Processor
<<requirement>>"
Over-Temperature
Detection"
(R11)
<<requirement>>"
Operational
Temperature Range"
(R12)
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6

Diagnostics Manager
<<Decision>>"
Is position valid?
<<Decision>>"
Over-Temperature
detected?
<<Assignment>>"
Error = 1
B3
<<Assignment>>"
<<Assignment>>"
[yes]
[no]
[yes]
[no]

Diagnostics Manager
<<Decision>>"
Is position valid?
<<Decision>>"
Over-Temperature
detected?
<<Assignment>>"
Error = 1
B3
<<Assignment>>"
<<Assignment>>"
[yes]
[no]
[yes]
[no]
input"
from B2
output"
to B5
output"
to B4

Rank Elements
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Natural
Language
Processing
Analysis
Change to R11: Change
over temperature detection
level to 147 C from 110 C.
B2, B3, B4, B6
B2"
B6"
B3"
B4
Ranked
according to
likelihood of
impact

Change Statements
• Informal inputs from systems engineers regarding impact of
changes
• Example: “Temperature lookup tables and voltage converters
need to be adjusted”
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Natural Language Processing
• Computing similarity scores for model elements by applying
NLP techniques to measure similarity between model
elements labels and change statements.
• Sorting the design elements obtained after structural and
behavioral analysis based on the similarity scores
• Engineers inspect the sorted lists to identify impacted
elements
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Approach
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Build SysML
Models
System "
Requirements
Traceability "
Information Model
Requirements and "
Design Models
Estimated "
Impact Set
Compute
Impacted
Elements
Change "
Statements
Phrases
Similarity"
Matrix
Process Change
Statements
Sort"
Elements
Sorted"
Elements

Challenges
• Which similarity measures to use?
• Experiment
• Mix syntactic and semantic measures: 19 combinations
• SofTDIDF (SIMPACK) and JCN (SEMILAR)
• What heuristic to use to stop inspecting potentially impacted
elements?
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Identifying a Subset to Inspect
• Pick the last signiﬁcant peak in delta similarity between two
successive elements
Delta
r = 49%
% of elements inspected in the sorted list
0 25 50 75 100
0.0
0.1
0.2
0.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
Similarityscore
h = 0.26max
h = 0.026max/10
hlast
Figure 13: Ranked similarity scores and delta chart
EISSize(#)
EISSize(#)

Evaluation
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370 elements 
16 change scenarios

Research Question 1
•  How much our behavioral and structural analysis can help in
identifying actually impacted elements?
•  The number of elements engineers needed to inspect decreased
•  Before applying our approach: 370 elements
•  After applying structural analysis: 80/370 (21.6 %)
•  After applying behavioral analysis: 36/370 (9.7%)
•  We cannot miss any impacted element!
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Effectiveness of our Approach
FutileInspectionEffort(%)
Structural
0
5
10
15
20
25
Distribution over 16
changes

Structural
Behavioral
0
5
10
15
20
25

Research Question 2
• How much improvement does the NLP technique bring about
compared to Structural/Behavioral analysis?
• The number of elements inspected decreases
• Before applying our approach: 370 elements
• After applying structural analysis: 80/370 (21.6 %)
• After applying behavioral analysis: 36/370 (9.7%)
• After applying NLP: 18/370 (4.8%)
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0
5
10
15
20
25
Structural
Behavioral
NLP

0
5
10
15
20
25
Structural
Behavioral
NLP
1 impacted element missed out of
a total of 81 impacted elements.

Summary
•  We provided an approach to automatically identify the impact of
requirements changes on system design
•  Our approach includes:
•  A SysML modeling methodology with acceptable traceability cost
•  An algorithm for impact computation that combines models’
structure, behavior and textual information
•  Industrial case study: Our hybrid approach reduces the number of
elements inspected from 370 to 18
•  Scalable approach: A few seconds to compute and rank estimated
impacted elements
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