NDLI: Call-mark slicing: an efficient and economical way of reducing slice

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Nishimatsu, A. Jihira, M. Kusumoto, S. Inoue, K.
Copyright Year	1999
Description	Author affiliation: Graduate Sch. of Eng. Sci., Osaka Univ., Japan (Nishimatsu, A.)
Abstract	When one debugs and maintain large software, it is very important to localize the scope of concern to small program portions. Program slicing is a promising technique for identifying portions of interest. There are many research results on the program slicing method. X static slice, which is a collection of program statements possibly affecting a particular variable's value, limits the scope, but the resulting collections are often still large. A dynamic slice, which is a collection of executed program statements affecting a particular variable's value, generally reduces the scope considerably, but its computation is expensive since the execution trace of the program must be recorded. In this paper, we propose a new slicing technique named call-mark slicing that combines static analysis of a program's structure with lightweight dynamic analysis. The data dependences and control dependences among the program statements are statically analyzed beforehand, and procedure/function invocations (calls) are recorded (marked) during execution. From this information, the dynamic dependences of the variables are explored. This call-mark slicing mechanism has been implemented, and the effectiveness of the method has been investigated.
Sponsorship	IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Council on Software Eng.
Starting Page	422
Ending Page	431
File Size	1158363
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581130740
ISSN	02705257
DOI	10.1145/302405.302674
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1999-05-22
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Software maintenance Software debugging Permission Information science Software engineering Information analysis Data mining Process control Programming profession Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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