GiveMe Views: a support tool to software evolution based on historical data analysis

This paper presents Give Me Views tool that can indicate possible modules and components that may be impacted when a corrective maintenance, adaptive or evolutionary is performed. Provides views that allow user to obtain information about the relationships between modules and components based on statistical analyzes performed by an SAE (Statistical Analysis Engine) on historical software data. A proof of concept was performed in order to verify the feasibility of the tool in software development activities in a real context of use. The tool deployment results in a software development company are presented