Debugging with dynamic slicing and backtracking

Software: Practice and Experience

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 589-616

  Agrawal, Hiralal ^a   Demillo, Richard A ^b   Spafford, Eugene H ^b  

^a Purdue University ^*  (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic program slicing; Execution backtracking; Program debugging; Program slicing; Reverse program execution

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; CONTROL; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAM SLICING; EXECUTION BACKTRACKING; PROGRAM SLICING; PROTOTYPE DEBUGGING TOOL SPYDER; REVERSE PROGRAM EXECUTION;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 0027606679     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.4380230603     Document Type: Article

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