Visualizing program slices

Author

Ball, Thomas ; Eick, Stephen G.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Naperville, IL, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

4-7 Oct 1994

Firstpage

288

Lastpage

295

Abstract

Program slicing is an automatic technique for determining which code in a program is relevant to a particular computation. Slicing has been applied in many areas, including program understanding, debugging, and maintenance. However, little attention has been paid to suitable interfaces for exploring program slices. We present an interface for program slicing that allows slicing at the statement procedure, or file level, and provides fast visual feedback on slice structure, integral to the interface is a global visualization of the program that shows the extent of a slice as it crosses procedure and file boundaries, and facilitates quick browsing of numerous slices

Keywords

program debugging; program diagnostics; software maintenance; user interfaces; visual languages; visual programming; file boundaries; file level; global visualization; program debugging; program slice visualisation; program slicing; program understanding; quick browsing; software maintenance; statement procedure; visual feedback; Data visualization; Debugging; Displays; Integral equations; Mice; Navigation; Programming profession; Software systems; State feedback;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1994. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6660-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1994.363606

Filename

363606