A New approach of program slicing: Mixed S-D (static & dynamic) slicing

Abstract: Program slicing technique is used for decomposition of a program by analyzing that particular program data and control flow. The main application of program slicing includes various software engineering activities such as program debugging, understanding, program maintenance, and testing and complexity measurement. When a slicing technique gathers information about the data and control flow of the program taking an actual and specific execution (or set of executions) of it, then it is said to be dynamic slicing, otherwise it is said to be static slicing. Generally, dynamic slices are smaller than static because the statements of the program that affect by the slicing criterion for a particular execution are contained by dynamic slicing. This paper reports a new approach of program slicing that is a mixed approach of static and dynamic slice (S-D slicing) using Object Oriented Concepts in C++ Language that will reduce the complexity of the program and simplify the program for various software engineering applications like program debubbing.

Keywords: Program-Slicing, Static-Slicing, Dynamic-Slicing-D slicing, Data-Dependency, Control- Dependency.