Dynamic Slicing Algorithms for Understanding of C Programs
Taehee Kim, Moon-Seol Kang · The Journal of the Korean Institute of Information and Communication Engineering · 2005
Dynamic slicing method decomposes a program into slices and supports to be understood programs easily by software developer or maintainer. In this paper, we propose dynamic slicing algorithm to reduce time to decompose a program. We produce reference-variable set used in right and modify-variable set used in left on the basis of the assignment operator of all sentences and extract Inter-Variable Relationship(VV) for all variables of variable declaration. Proposed algorithm extracts dynamic slices by using them and execution trace of program. In conclusion, proposed algorithm improved the performance by reducing the time to extract dynamic slices by decreasing average comparison count of sentence when the number of criterion variables is three or more.