Dependence-cache slicing: A program slicing method using lightweight dynamic information

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 169-177

  Takada, T ^a   Ohata, F ^a   Inoue, K ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conferences; Data mining; Debugging; Informatics; Runtime; Sections; Software maintenance; Software testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DATA MINING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

ARRAY AND POINTER; CONFERENCES; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; IMPORTANT FEATURES; INFORMATICS; RUNTIMES; SECTIONS; SLICING METHODS;

PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

EID: 76349100047     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2002.1021338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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