A dynamic program slice is this part of a program that "affects" the computation of a variable of interest during program execution on a specific program input. Dynamic program slicing refers to a collection of program slicing methods that are based on program execution and may significantly reduce the size of a program slice because run-time information, collected during program execution, is ...

The goal of obfuscation is to transform a program, without affecting its functionality, so that some secret information within the program can be hidden for as long as possible from an adversary armed with reverse engineering tools. Slicing is a form of reverse engineering which aims to abstract away a subset of program code based on a particular program point and is considered to be a potent p...

Program slicing, a technique to compute the subset of program statements that can affect the value of a program variable at a specific program point, is widely used in tools to support maintenance activities. To be useful for supporting these activities, a slicing technique must be sufficiently precise and efficient. Harrold and Ci propose a method for improving the efficiency of slicing by reu...

Program slicing is a technique for program simpli cation based upon the deletion of statements which cannot a ect the values of a chosen set of variables. Because slicing extracts a subcomponent of the program concerned with some speci c computation on a set of variables, it can be used to assist program comprehension, allowing a programmer to remodularise a program according to arbitrarily sel...

Program slicing is a source code analysis and manipulation technique, in which a subprogram is identified based on a user-specified slicing criterion. The criterion captures the point of interest within the program, while the process of slicing consists of following dependencies to locate those parts of the program that may affect the slicing criterion [Weiser 1979]. Some flavours of slicing me...

SUMMARY Program slicing is an automatic program abstraction technique whose many applications include software maintenance, re{engineering and comprehension, all of which rely crucially upon the precision of the slicing algorithm used. When slicing is applied to maintenance problems, the programs to be sliced are typically legacy systems, often written in older, `unstructured' programming style...

Program slice contains all statements in a program that directly or indirectly act the value of a variable occurrence [14], the criteria of which is a pair of statement and variables. We can further narrow the notion of slice, which contains statements that influence the value of a variable occurrence for special program inputs. This is referred as dynamic program slicing [1]. It works on a sin...

Interprocedural slicing is a technique applied on programs with procedures which relies on how the information is passed at procedure call/return sites. Such a technique computes program slices (i.e. program fragments restricted w.r.t. a given criterion). The existing approaches to interprocedural slicing exploit the particularities of the underlying language semantics in order to compute progr...

Program slicing is a technique that determines which statements in a program affect or are affected by another statement in that program. Static forward slicing, in particular, can be used for impact analysis by identifying all potential effects of changes in software. This information helps developers design and test their changes. Unfortunately, static slicing is too imprecise—it often produc...

Program slicing is a technique which supports program comprehension. Program slicing extracts all statements — called a program slice — that may affect a certain statement. However, program slicing is not useful if an analysis target program is too large since program slices of such a program are also often too large. Thin slicing is a technique reducing the size of program slice by extracting ...