Slicing the SCAM Mug: A Case Study in Semantic Slicing

The Formal Transformation Approach to Source Code Analysis and Manipulation

In this paper we give a brief introduction to the foundations of WSL transformation theory and describe some applications to program slicing. We introduce some generalisations of traditional slicing, amorphous slicing and conditioned slicing which are possible in the framework of WSL transformations. One generalisation is “semantic slicing” which combines slicing and abstraction to a specificat...

Program Slicing: Methods and Applications

Program slicing is a viable method to restrict the focus of a task to specific sub-components of a program. Examples of applications include debugging, testing, program comprehension, restructuring, downsizing, and parallelization. This paper discusses different statement deletion based slicing methods, together with algorithms and applications to software engineering.

Static Slicing of Reactive Programs

Interprocedural Static Slicing of Binary Executables

Although the slicing of programs written in a high-level language has been widely studied in the literature, very little work has been published on the slicing of binary executable programs. The lack of existing solutions is really hard to understand since the application domain for slicing binaries is similar to that for slicing high-level languages. In this paper we present a method for the i...

A Hybrid Program Slicing Framework

Program Slicing is a decomposition technique that transforms a large program into a smaller one that contains only statements relevant to the computation of a selected function. Applications of program slicing can be found in software testing, debugging, and maintenance by reducing the amount of data that has to be analyzed in order to comprehend a program or parts of its functionality. In this...