A Survey of Empirical Results on Program Slicing

David Wendell Binkley; Mark Harman

doi:10.1016/S0065-2458(03)62003-6

A Survey of Empirical Results on Program Slicing

David Wendell Binkley, Mark Harman

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Abstract

A program slice extracts a semantically meaningful portion of a program, based upon a user-selected slicing criterion. As the study of program slicing has matured, a growing body of empirical data has been gathered on the size of slices, slicing tools and techniques, the applications of slicing, and the beneficial psychological effects of slices on the programmers who use them. Empirical work on these topics is surveyed, highlighting trends and areas where additional empirical investigation is desirable, either because of contradictory findings or scarcity of results in the existing body of empirical knowledge.

Original language	English
Article number	N/A
Pages (from-to)	105-178
Number of pages	74
Journal	ADVANCES IN COMPUTERS
Volume	62
Issue number	N/A
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2458(03)62003-6
Publication status	Published - 2004

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