Program Slicing talk

["Sumit Kumar" <sumit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Due to scheduling conflicts the announcement for this talk did not 
gothrough, so here it is:Better Slicing of Programs with Jumps and 
Switches3/19/02 Tuesday Room 3331 3pm (30 min 
presentation)Program slicing is an important operation that can be 
used as the basis  forprogramming tools that help programmers 
understand, debug, maintain, andtest  their  code. In this talk I 
will start with background on slicing andthen present how we extended 
previous work on program slicing by providing anew definition  of  
"correct"  slices,  by introducing  a representation 
forC-style switch statements, and by defining a new way to compute 
controldependences to slice  a  program-dependence graph so 
as  to compute moreprecise slices of programs that include jumps and 
switches. Experimentalresults show that the new approach to slicing can 
sometimes lead to asignificant improvement in slice 
precision.This  is  a practice talk for presentation at the 
upcoming conference FASE2002 (ETAPS 2002). The paper is available at<A 
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