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Program slicing

Set of software engineering methods

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 31, 2026
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In computer programming, program slicing is the computation of the set of program statements, the program slice, that may affect the values at some point of interest, referred to as a slicing criterion. Program slicing can be used in debugging to locate source of errors more easily. Other applications of slicing include software maintenance, optimization, program analysis, and information flow control.

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