Using Program Slicing to Detect the Dead Code
Nour Alabwaini, Amal Aldaaje, Tamara Baker Jaber, Mohammad M. A. Abdallah, Abdelfatah Aref Tamimi · 2018
Program code may have useless statements of code. These useless statements called dead code. The dead code affects the code quality negatively. In this research, a new model has been introduced to identify the dead code in a program and remove it. The decomposition slicing technique is used to identify the live code, and refactoring techniques can also help in tide up the code design. As a result, the proposed model succeed to remove the dead code of a program. However, still need some extra work to increase the accuracy of identifying the live code.