An Extensible Open-Source Compiler Infrastructure for Testing

Testing forms a critical part of the development process for large-scale software, and there is growing need for automated tools that can read, represent, analyze, and transform the application’s source code to help carry out testing tasks. However, the support required to compile applications written in common general purpose languages is generally inaccessible to the testing research community. In this paper, we report on an extensible, open-source compiler infrastructure called ROSE, which is currently in development at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ROSE specifically targets developers who wish to build sourcebased tools that implement customized analyses and optimizations for large-scale C, C++, and Fortran90 scientific computing applications (on the order of a million lines of code or more). However, much of this infrastructure can also be used to address problems in testing, and ROSE is by design broadly accessible to those without a formal compiler background. This...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: HVC
• Authors: Daniel J. Quinlan, Shmuel Ur, Richard W. Vuduc
• Keywords: HVC 2005, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Open-source Compiler Infrastructure, Testing Research Community