Program slicing is a technique to extract program parts with respect to some special
computation. Since Weiser first proposed the notion of slicing in 1979, hundreds of papers …

Program slicing is a technique for reducing the amount of information that needs to be
absorbed by a programmer. Given a point of “interest” in a program, described by a variable …

A program slice consists of the parts of a program that (potentially) affect the values
computed at some point of interest. Such a point of interest is referred to as a slicing …

Software maintenance is the process of designing and integrating consistent changes to an
existing software system. Doing effective maintenance is a complex task due in part to the …

Programmers spend considerable time debugging code. Symbolic debuggers provide some
help but the task remains complex and difficult. Other than breakpoints and tracing, these …

The extraction of a code fragment into a separate method is one of the most widely
performed refactoring activities, since it allows the decomposition of large and complex …

We examine the functional cohesion of procedures using a data slice abstraction. Our
analysis identifies the data tokens that lie on more than one slice as the" glue" that binds …

Slicing is a technique to decompose programs based on the analysis of the control and data
flow. In the original Weiser's definition, a slice consists of any subset of program statements …

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 …

This paper reports experiments with automated software modularization and
remodularization, using search-based algorithms, the fitness functions of which are derived …