Break the dead end of dynamic slicing: localizing data and control omission bug

• Main Authors: LIN, Yun, SUN, Jun, TRAN, Lyly, BAI, Guangdong, WANG, Haijun, DONG, Jin Song
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: debugging; program slice; omission error; empirical study; Programming Languages and Compilers; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4654; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5657/viewcontent/3238147.3238163.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Dynamic slicing is a common way of identifying the root cause when a program fault is revealed. With the dynamic slicing technique, the programmers can follow data and control flow along the program execution trace to the root cause. However, the technique usually fails to work on omission bugs, i.e...