Combining Static Analysis Techniques for Program Comprehension Using Slicito

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3A10501894" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:10501894 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC66645.2025.00048" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC66645.2025.00048</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPC66645.2025.00048" target="_blank" >10.1109/ICPC66645.2025.00048</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Combining Static Analysis Techniques for Program Comprehension Using Slicito

Original language description

While program comprehension tools often use static program analysis techniques to obtain useful information, they usually work only with sufficiently scalable techniques with limited precision. A possible improvement of this approach is to let the developer interactively reduce the scope of the code being analyzed and then apply a more precise analysis technique to the reduced scope. This paper presents a new version of the tool Slicito that allows developers to perform this kind of exploration on C# code in Visual Studio. A common usage of Slicito is to use interprocedural data-flow analysis to identify the parts of the code most relevant for the given task and then apply symbolic execution to reason about the precise behavior of these parts. Inspired by Moldable Development, Slicito provides a set of program analysis and visualization building blocks that can be used to create specialized program comprehension tools directly in Visual Studio. We demonstrate the full scope of features on a real industrial example both in the text and in the following video: https://www.slicito.com/icpc2025video.mp4

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-06506S" target="_blank" >GA23-06506S: Advanced Analysis and Verification for Advanced Software</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

2025 IEEE/ACM 33rd International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC)

ISBN

979-8-3315-0223-2

ISSN

2643-7171

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

382-386

Publisher name

IEEE

Place of publication

New York, NY

Event location

Ottawa

Event date

Apr 27, 2025

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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