Locating program features using execution slices

Proceedings - 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 194-203

  Wong, W Eric ^a   Gokhale, Swapna S ^b   Horgan, Joseph R ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^c  

^a TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

common code; execution slice; program features; program understanding; software maintenance; software testing; unique code

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMMON CODE; EXECUTION SLICE; PROGRAM FEATURES; PROGRAM UNDERSTANDING; UNIQUE CODE;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84979767079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASSET.1999.756769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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