Slicer4D: A Slicing-based Debugger for Java

Debugging software failures often demands significant time and effort. Program slicing is a technique that can help developers fast track the debugging process by allowing them to focus only on the code relevant to the failure. However, despite the effectiveness of slicing, these techniques are not integrated into modern IDEs. Instead, most, if not all, current slicing tools are launched from the command line and produce log files as output. Developers thus have to switch between the IDE and command line tools, manually correlating the log file results with their source code, which hinders the adoption of the slicing-based debugging approaches in practice.