Program Slicing

Under slicing (more precisely, program slicing ) means the analysis of a computer program with the aim to find out which program statements affect a particular statement in a particular program point or be influenced by it.

In Static Slicing this analysis is independent of any particular starting configuration, while it takes place in Dynamic Slicing for a particular starting configuration.

Under Approximate Dynamic slicing is to understand that for the static slicing method is not the entire program is used, but only those parts of the program, which were run at a special launch configuration.