Path slicing

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 38-47

  Jhala, Ranjit ^a   Majumdar, Rupak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterexample analysis; Program slicing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COUNTEREXAMPLE ANALYSIS; PATH SLICING; PROGRAM SLICING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM DIAGNOSTICS; UTILITY PROGRAMS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 33745270033     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: 03621340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1064978.1065016     Document Type: Article

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