Impact analysis - .NET

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The objective is to analyse the impact of a small change in a huge Solution.

The tool (preferably within Visual Studio 2010, but can be outside as well) should provide detailed impact points.

ie.., the movement of the value in the variable that was changed. Something of that sort.

Anything you know of?

Probably something similar to SEEC tool for Mainframe I suppose.

or anything you use to perform Impact Analysis in quicker way?

Posted 17-Dec-11 2:13am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-12-17T17:22:00

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Did you see this, and the links in these articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_impact_analysis[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_management_%28engineering%29[^]?

—SA

Posted 17-Dec-11 17:22pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Wendelius · Answer 2 · 2011-12-17T04:15:00

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Do you mean something like a dependency analyzer. For example: http://www.ndepend.com/[^]

Posted 17-Dec-11 4:15am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Dec-11 23:23pm

This is not the same as impact analysis. I put some links, please see my answer.
--SA

Wendelius 18-Dec-11 2:47am

Yep, I know, but I'm not sure what the OP is actually after and at what 'level'. AFAIK tools like SEEC do net exist for .Net but it would be nice to know if they actually exist.

**AmitGajjar** · Answer 3 · 2011-12-17T03:34:00

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Hi,

actually i do not understand your problem exactly,

but i guess if you have Unit Test Project or you can say NUnit then that can make sure your any changes will affect on how many other modules. if all test cases getting passed , it means your changes are not affecting other modules.

hope this will help you,

thanks
-amit.

Posted 17-Dec-11 3:34am

AmitGajjar

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[no name] 17-Dec-11 9:43am

Your solution refers to checking AFTER the changes are made.

Impact analysis is made BEFORE making any change.

Let's say I'm planning to Change a member in a class. The tool should point to me all files where the class members are used. Something of that sort.

AmitGajjar 17-Dec-11 23:41pm

small changes can be immediately measured for major changes you need to check your SDDS documents or other related documents,

thanks
-amit