Review on Cost Effective Software Engineering Using Program Slicing Techniques

Review on Program Slicing Techniques towards Program Comprehension Application

“…In recent time, software system grows in size causing additional program comprehension activities, as programmers have to face the complexity during maintenance phase. As a result of this problem, cost and time become a major constraints of this activity (Koushik & Selvarani, 2012;Roongruangsuwan & Daengdej, 2010). Norman and Vasilecas in (Lahtinen, Järvinen, & Melakoski-Vistbacka, 2007;Normantas & Vasilecas, 2013) stated that 41.8% of the total effort spent on maintenance phase.…”

“…One way to assist programmers to improve their program comprehension activity is by applying program analysis using the slicing technique. Program slicing provides mechanism to analyze and understand the program behavior for further restructuring and refinement (Koushik & Selvarani, 2012). It plays an important role in program comprehension, since it allows programmers to focus on the relevant portions of program (Barros, da Cruz, Henriques, & Pinto, 2011;Zhang, Zheng, Huang, & Qi, 2011).…”

“…It plays an important role in program comprehension, since it allows programmers to focus on the relevant portions of program (Barros, da Cruz, Henriques, & Pinto, 2011;Zhang, Zheng, Huang, & Qi, 2011). Moreover, previous works found that program slicing has unique importance in addressing the issues of cost and time, and can be helpful in producing effective cost and time (Koushik & Selvarani, 2012;Saleem, Hussain, Ismail, & Mohsin, 2009). Program slicing is one of the techniques in program analysis that evaluates the program by acquiring smaller fragments of code, therefore, this application will increases program understanding.…”