Sorry for being imprecise, Kenneth.

Basically I want to trace requirements to architectural artifacts, e.g. a requirement R1 is being refined by another requirement R2, which is then realized by some software component SC1. This example can be seen as the link structure R1 -> R2 -> SC1. In general, of course this is a huge graph.

Now, impact analysis tries to compute the impact of e.g a changing requirement on some architectural artifact.

My question is, whether there are "standard" benchmarks or traceability graph structures on which different impact analyses can be applied and compared.

Thank you!

Stefan

There are existing readings/ literature on impact analysis:

1) one is the necessity for baseline data

2) theory of change

3) Logic model

Nice Contribution Stefan Kugele