Notification of Propagating Source Code Changes Affecting Use Cases

We propose a system for notification of source code changes potentially affecting the functionality of developerdefined use cases in a source-controlled software project. When a programmer makes a change to a code file in a large software project, they may not be aware how the change affects the execution of use cases that rely on the modified code. We believe that by bringing the notification of changed functionality temporally closer to the point at which the change is made, we can decrease the need for future fixes to the same code. Our approach relies on static analysis of method call graphs to isolate use case methods whose execution is potentially affected by code changes retrieved from the source control system. We implement our approach as Yukon, a graphical add-in for Visual Studio