Effective program debugging based on execution slices and inter-block data dependency

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 891-903

  Wong, W Eric ^a   Qi, Yu ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

DESiD; Execution slice; Fault localization; Inter block data dependency; Program debugging; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA PROCESSING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SUPERVISORY AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS;

DESID; EXECUTION SLICE; INTER-BLOCK DATA DEPENDENCY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 33646796376     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.06.045     Document Type: Article

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