Program Slice Browser

Author

Deng, Yunbo ; Kothari, Suraj ; Namara, Yogy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

59

Abstract

Program slicing is useful for addressing many software engineering problems as it allows focusing attention on just the relevant part of the program. However, this part could still be huge and difficult to comprehend and thus diminish usefulness of program slicing. This is a serious problem in working with legacy codes for scientific computing. To address this problem, the Program Slice Browser (PSB) is designed as an interactive and integrated tool that is particularly valuable for extracting useful information from a complex program slice. PSB incorporates the following novel features: adaptable layout for convenient display of a slice, multi-level slice abstractions, integration with other software visualization components, and capabilities to support interaction and cross-referencing within different views of the software

Keywords

program slicing; program visualisation; reverse engineering; software tools; Program Slice Browser; legacy codes; program comprehension; program slicing; scientific computing; software engineering; software tool; software visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 2001. IWPC 2001. Proceedings. 9th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1131-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.2001.921713

Filename

921713