A Meta-model For Software Project Change and Configuration Management

Project change and configuration management refers to the process of controlling and managing of change in project development process. Change can occur in any of the items and phases. This paper has focused on change management i.e. when change occurs in requirements of the software project. Several approaches have been proposed for change/configuration management. But, a metamodel is required that accommodates the tracking of change in three of the requirements i.e. Functional Requirement (FR), Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) and Domain Requirements (DR). In this paper, we have proposed a metamodel for tracking that how change in one requirement impacts change in other requirement so that it can later manage the development process of the project. It provides the identification of hierarchal relation b/w FRs, NFRs and DRs and helps to authorize the changes in order to ensure the requirements consistency in the project.