Unions of slices are not slices

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 363-367

  De Lucia, A ^a   Harman, M ^b   Hierons, R ^b   Krinke, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRAM DEPENDENCE GRAPH;

REENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84884719012     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2003.1192445     Document Type: Conference Paper

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