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Using Program Slicing to Identify Faults in Software

Authors: Sue Black, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, and Paul Wernick

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5451, Beyond Program Slicing (2006)

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This study explores the relationship between program slices and faults. The aim is to investigate whether the characteristics of program slices can be used to identify fault-prone software components. Slicing metrics and dependence clusters are used to characterise the slicing profile of a software component, then the relationship between the slicing profile of the component and the faults in that component are then analysed. Faults can increase the likelihood of a system becoming unstable causing problems for the development and evolution of the system. Identifying faultprone components is difficult and reliable predictors of faultproneness not easily identifiable. Program slicing is an established software engineering technique for the detection and correction of specific faults. An investigation is carried out into whether the use of program slicing can be extended as a reliable tool to predict fault-prone software components. Preliminary results are promising suggesting that slicing may offer valuable insights into fault-proneness.

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Sue Black, Steve Counsell, Tracy Hall, and Paul Wernick. Using Program Slicing to Identify Faults in Software. In Beyond Program Slicing. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5451, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{black_et_al:DagSemProc.05451.11,
  author =	{Black, Sue and Counsell, Steve and Hall, Tracy and Wernick, Paul},
  title =	{{Using Program Slicing to Identify Faults in Software}},
  booktitle =	{Beyond Program Slicing},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{5451},
  editor =	{David W. Binkley and Mark Harman and Jens Krinke},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05451.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-5873},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.05451.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Program slicing, slicing metrics, fault proneness, software quality}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/DagSemProc.05451.7

Making Slicing Mainstream How can we be Weiser?

Authors: Karl Trygve Kalleberg, Tracy Hall, and Ran Ettinger

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5451, Beyond Program Slicing (2006)

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By now, the concept of program slicing has been known in the research community for around 25 years. As a research topic, it has enjoyed a fair share of popularity, evidenced by the number of articles published on the topic following Mark Weiser's seminal paper. However, outside research circles, program slicing appears to be virtually unknown. In this report, we take the premise that program slicing is both technically relevant, and has a sufficient theoretical foundation, to be applied in practice within the software industry. With this premise in mind, we ask ourselves, ``what are the mechanisms by which we as a community could make program slicing mainstream''?

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Karl Trygve Kalleberg, Tracy Hall, and Ran Ettinger. Making Slicing Mainstream How can we be Weiser?. In Beyond Program Slicing. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5451, pp. 1-11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)

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@InProceedings{kalleberg_et_al:DagSemProc.05451.7,
  author =	{Kalleberg, Karl Trygve and Hall, Tracy and Ettinger, Ran},
  title =	{{Making Slicing Mainstream How can we be Weiser?}},
  booktitle =	{Beyond Program Slicing},
  pages =	{1--11},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{5451},
  editor =	{David W. Binkley and Mark Harman and Jens Krinke},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05451.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4861},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.05451.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Program Slicing, Popularization}
}

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