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      A Case Study of a Slicing-Based Approach for Locating Type Errors

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      Theory and Practice of Algebraic Specifications
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            Abstract

            Type checkers have been specified in ASF+SDF for many languages, using a variety of specification styles. Several mechanisms for tracking positional information have been proposed, each with shortcomings and/or restrictions on specifications. We propose the use of dynamic dependence tracking for tracking positional information. In this approach, a slice of the program being type checked is associated with each type error. This slice contains precisely those program fragments that caused the type error under consideration. Our approach is completely languageindependent, imposes no restrictions on ASF+SDF specifications, and has been applied successfully to a significant subset of Pascal. We report on several experiments that have shown an interesting correlation between the amount of nondeterminism in the specification, and the accuracy of the slices associated with type errors. Generally, more accurate error locations are obtained as the specification gets less deterministic.

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            Conference
            September 1997
            September 1997
            : 1-36
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            [0001]CWI, Amsterdam

            Amsterdam, The Netherlands
            [0002]IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

            Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/AL1997.8
            d159ec1a-4ea3-4895-89f6-8257a8ba3d86
            © T. B. Dinesh et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Algebraic Specifications, Amsterdam

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Algebraic Specifications
            AS
            2
            Amsterdam
            25-26 September 1997
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Theory and Practice of Algebraic Specifications
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

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