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Slicing Tagged Objects in Ada

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This paper presents an approach to representing dependencies for object-oriented (OO) Ada 95 programs. This new approach distinguishes subcomponents for different objects and represents the effects of polymorphism and dynamic bindings. Based on this model, we developed approaches to slicing subprograms, packages/types and hierarchies of types. Our slicing algorithm is more efficient because most of the results can be reused, and inter-subprogram slicing is transformed to intra-subprogram slicing.

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

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  1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Southeast University, China

    Zhengqiang Chen & Baowen Xu

  2. Department of Computer Science, De Montfort University, England

    Hongji Yang

  3. State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, China

    Zhengqiang Chen & Baowen Xu

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    Dirk Craeynest

  2. EPFL-DI-LGL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland

    Alfred Strohmeier

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Chen, Z., Xu, B., Yang, H. (2001). Slicing Tagged Objects in Ada. In: Craeynest, D., Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable SoftwareTechnologies — Ada-Europe 2001. Ada-Europe 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2043. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45136-6_7

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