13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006)
An Empirical Study of Executable Concept Slice Size
Benevento, Italy
October 23-October 27
ISBN: 0-7695-2719-1
Zheng Li, King?s College London, United Kingdom
An Executable Concept Slice extracts from a program an executable subprogram that captures the semantics of a specified high-level concept from the program. Executable concept slicing combines the executability of program slicing, with the expressive domain level criteria of concept assignment. This paper presents results from an investigation of executable concept slice size to assess the effectiveness of executable concept slicing. The results show that the coherence of concept-based slicing criteria allows them to produce smaller executable concept slices than arbitrary criteria, providing evidence for the applicability of Executable Concept Slicing.
Index Terms:
Program Slicing, Concept Assignment
Citation:
David Binkley, Nicolas Gold, Mark Harman, Zheng Li, Kiarash Mahdavi, "An Empirical Study of Executable Concept Slice Size," wcre, pp.103-114, 13th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2006), 2006