Using Program Slicing Technique to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing

Systems of computers and their application in the lives of modern human beings are vastly expanding. In any kind of computer application, failure in computer systems can lead to a range of financial and mortal losses. Indeed, the major origin of software failure can be located in designing or implementing software. With regard to these statistics, 30% of the software projects have been prosperous and successful. The proposed method is intended to reduce the cost and time of testing and it focuses on enhancing the efficiency of software testing methods. In this paper, we investigated the effect of slicing techniques on the reduction rate of testing cost and time. The results of experiments show that we can cover a large number of program instructions, branches and paths by a small number of test cases in the sliced program.