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...

This paper outlines the concept of probabilistic program slicing. Whereas conventional slicing removes statements that cannot affect the slicing criterion, probabilistic slicing also removes statements that are unlikely to affect the criterion. The paper presents a simple example before describing some algorithmic concerns. Then three motivating applications are described. Finally it highlights...

Program slicing has been mainly studied in the context of imperative languages, where it has been applied to many software engineering tasks, like program understanding, maintenance, debugging, testing, code reuse, etc. This paper introduces the first forward slicing technique for multi-paradigm declarative programs. In particular, we show how program slicing can be defined in terms of online p...

Program slicing transforms a large program into a smaller one that contains only statements relevant to the computation of a given function. It has been shown that program slicing can be useful in program understanding. Traditionally, program slices are represented in the textual form. Although slicing does narrow the size of the program, the textual representation of a slice does not provide m...

Program Slicing is the process of deleting statements in a program that do not affect a given set of variables at a chosen point in the program. In this paper the first parallel slicing algorithm for static program slicing is introduced. It is shown how the control flow graph of the program to be sliced is converted into a network of concurrent processes, thereby producing a parallel version of...

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 slice is a set of statements that affect the value of variable v in a statement s. In order to calculate a program slice, we must know the dependence relations between statements in the program. Program slicing techniques are roughly divided into two categories, static slicing and dynamic slicing, and we have proposed DC slicing technique which uses both static and dynamic information. ...

Understanding a large software product is known as a very challenging task. One way that facilitate program understanding is program slicing. Slicing is an important decomposition technique for program understanding[3]. However, traditional slicing methods tend to produce too large slices for human inspection as modern programs are often huge and static program analyses are hard to be precise e...