Title | Locating program features using execution slices |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 1999 |
Authors | WE Wong, SS Gokhale,, and KS Trivedi |
Conference Name | Proceedings - 1999 IEEE Symposium on Application-Specific Systems and Software Engineering and Technology, ASSET 1999 |
Date Published | 01/1999 |
Abstract | An important step towards effective software maintenance is to locate the code relevant to a particular feature. We report a study applying an execution slice-based technique to a reliability and performance evaluator to identify the code which is unique to a feature, or is common to a group of features. Supported by tools called ATAC and chi/Vue, the program features in the source code can be tracked down to files, functions, lines of code, decisions, and then c- or p-uses. Our study suggests that the technique can provide software programmers and maintainers with a good starting point for quick program understanding. |
DOI | 10.1109/ASSET.1999.756769 |