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An Overview of the Indus Framework for Analysis and Slicing of Concurrent Java Software

John Hatcliff

Professor at Kansas State University

15 Janvier 2007, 11h, Euler Bleu

Abstract:

Program slicing is a program analysis and transformation technique that has been successfully applied in a wide range of applications including program comprehension, debugging, maintenance, testing, security, and verification. However, there are only a few full-featured implementations of program slicing that are available for industrial applications or academic research. In particular, very little tool support exists for slicing programs written in modern object-oriented languages such as Java, C#, or C++.

This talk presents an overview of Indus -- a robust framework for analysis and slicing of concurrent Java programs, and Kaveri -- a feature-rich Eclipse-based GUI for Indus slicing. For Indus, we describe the underlying tool architecture, analysis components, and program dependence capabilities required for slicing. In addition, we present a collection of advanced features useful for effective slicing of Java programs including calling-context sensitive slicing, scoped slicing, control slicing, and chopping. For Kaveri, we discuss the design goals and basic capabilities of a graphical presentation of slicing information that is integrated into a Java development environment. We will also briefly overview the Indus scripting framework that allows developers easy access to a variety of information collected by the underlying Indus program analysis framework.