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Journal of Logic and Computation 1999 9(6):835-871; doi:10.1093/logcom/9.6.835
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Dynamic slicing: a generic analysis based on a natural semantics format

V Gouranton and D Le Métayer

Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (Irisa), Institut de Formation Supéreure en Informatique et Communication (Ifsic), Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France E-mail: {Valerie.Gouranton, Daniel.Lemetayer}@irisa.fr; Valerie.Gouranton@lifo.univ-orleans.fr

Slicing analyses have been proposed for different programming languages. Rather than defining a new analysis from scratch for each programming language, we would like to specify such an analysis once and for all, in a language-independent way, and then specialize it for different programming languages. In order to achieve this goal, we propose a notion of natural semantics format and a dynamic slicing analysis format. The natural semantics format formalizes a class of natural semantics and the analysis format is a generic, language-independent, slicing analysis. The correctness of the generic analysis is established as a relation between the derivation trees of the original program and the slice. This generic analysis is then instantiated to several programming languages conforming to the semantics format (an imperative language, a logic programming language and a functional language), yielding a dynamic slicing analyzer for each of these languages.

Keywords: Dynamic slicing analysis, natural semantics, proof tree, correctness, systematic derivation.


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