1. A development support system which supports the development of software for a storage controller comprising: a front-end control part which has an information processing system that is used to control the exchange of data with hosts; a storage controller group which provides a storage area; a back-end control part which has an information processing system that is used to control the exchange of data with the storage controller group; a memory part which is shared by said front-end control part and said back-end control part; and software which is respectively loaded in said front-end control part and said back-end control part, and which respectively controls said respective information processing systems of these respective communications control parts; said storage controller software development support system further comprising: a software information analysis part which acquires specification information relating to said software, and which analyzes the structure of specified software element groups that constitute said software; a hardware information analysis part which acquires specification information at least relating to the hardware respectively constituting said front-end control part and said back-end control part, and which analyzes the structure of specified hardware element groups that constitute said hardware; a dependence relationship analysis part which analyzes the dependence relationship between said hardware element groups and said software element groups on the basis of the analysis results obtained by said software information analysis part and the analysis results obtained by said hardware information analysis part; a degree-of-effect prediction part which predicts, in cases where one or a plurality of the hardware elements in said hardware element group are altered, the degree of the effect of this alteration on said software element group, on the basis of the analysis results obtained by said dependence relationship analysis part; and an information providing part which provides information indicating the degree of the effect that is predicted by said degree-of-effect prediction part to the outside.