“…The majority of the studies dealing with identifying coupled changes use some kind of data mining for this purpose (German, 2004;Hattori et al, 2008;Kagdi, Yusuf & Maletic, 2006;Shirabad, Lethbridge & Matwin, 2003;Van Rysselberghe & Demeyer, 2004;Ying et al, 2004;Zimmermann et al, 2004). Especially the association rules technique is often used to identify frequent changes (Kagdi, Yusuf & Maletic, 2006;Ying et al, 2004;Zimmermann et al, 2004).…”