An empirical study of predicate dependence levels and trends

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 330-339

  Binkley, David ^a   Harman, Mark ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependence analysis; Program slicing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTATION TIME; GLOBAL VARIABLES; INVERSE CORRELATION; SOURCE CODE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0037925302     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icse.2003.1201212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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