… a subset of a program's behavior, slicing reduces that program to ami- … program, Procedures
are discussed later. The first few definitions recalled a "slice," is an independent program …

… Program slicing is a technique to extract program parts with respect to some special … of
slicing in 1979, hundreds of papers have been presented in this area. Tens of variants of slicing …

… interest” in a program, described by a variable and a statement, a program slice gives all the
… for computing program slices and the applications of program slicing to development, testing…

… Program slices are useful in debugging, testing, maintenance, ar.d understanding of programs.
The conventional notion of a program slice, the static slice… the dynamic slice consisting of …

… For this reason we are interested in a slice that preserves the program’s behavior for a specific
input, rather than that for the set of all inputs for which the program terminates. This type of …

… slice. The latter allows one to answer questions about the semantic validity of program slicing
… and contrast different notions of a program slice and to make assertions about their pro…

… The current literature on slicing is becoming unwieldy, with … of program slicing and their
applications. A new notion of execution slice and a method for interprocedural dynamic slicing …

… There now exists sufficient empirical evidence, from over 30 publications concerning slicing,
… results related to program slicing. These include empirical investigations of slicing’s impact …

… The motivation for slicing derives from the fact that the slice of a program p is (usually) simpler
than p, whilst muintuining the effect of p upon the slice set. Program slicing was introduced …

… of program slice and some of the applications to which slicing … of the applications to which
program slicing has been put. The … was the original motivation for program slicing. Since then …