Rex: A toolset for reproducing software experiments

Being able to reproduce experiments is the cornerstone of the scientific method. Software experiments are hard to reproduce even if identical hardware is available because external data sets could have changed, software used in the original experiment may be unavailable, or the input parameters for the experiment may not be documented. This paper presents Rex, a toolset that allows one to record an experiment and archive its apparatus, replay an experiment, conduct new experiments, and compare differences between experiments. The execution time overhead of recording ex

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: BIBM
• Authors: Somu Perianayagam, Gregory R. Andrews, John H. Hartman
• Keywords: BIBM 2010, Bioinformatics, External Data Sets, Identical Hardware, Scientific Method