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System-Dependence-Graph-Based Slicing of Programs with Arbitrary
Interprocedural Control Flow
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering
May 1999, pp. 432-441
Saurabh Sinha, Mary Jean Harrold, and Gregg Rothermel
Abstract
Many algorithms for automating software engineering
tasks require program slices.
To be applicable to large software systems, these
slices must be computed interprocedurally.
Slicing techniques based on the system dependence graph
(SDG) provide one approach for computing interprocedural
slices, but these techniques are defined only for programs
in which called procedures necessarily return to call sites.
When applied to programs that contain arbitrary interprocedural
control flow, existing SDG-based slicing techniques can
compute incorrect slices; this limits their applicability.
This paper presents an approach to constructing
SDGs, and computing slices on SDGs, that accommodates
programs with arbitrary interprocedural control flow.
The main benefit of our approach is that it allows the use
of the SDG-based slicing technique on a wide class of
practical programs to which it did not previously apply.
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