JUNE 18–22, 2017
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY

Presentation Details
 
Name: (RP18) FortranTestGenerator: Automatic & Flexible Unit Test Generation for Legacy HPC Code
 
Time: Tuesday, June 20, 2017
08:35 am - 09:45 am
 
Room:   Substanz 1+2  
 
Breaks:07:30 am - 10:00 am Welcome Coffee
 
Presenter:   Julian Kunkel, DKRZ
 
Abstract:  
Unit testing is an established practice in professional software development. However, in high-performance computing (HPC) with its scientific applications, it is not widely applied. Besides general problems regarding testing of scientific software, for many HPC applications the effort of creating small test cases with a consistent set of test data is high. We have created a tool called FortranTestGenerator, that significantly reduces the effort of creating unit tests for subroutines of an existing Fortran application. It is based on Capture & Replay (C&R), that is, it extracts data while running the original application and uses the extracted data as test input data. The tool automatically generates code for capturing the input data and a basic test driver which can be extended by the developer to an appropriate unit test. A static source code analysis is conducted, to reduce the number of captured variables. Code is generated based on flexibly customizable templates. Thus, both the capturing process and the unit tests can easily be integrated into an existing software ecosystem.

Authors:
Christian Hovy, Universität Hamburg
Julian Kunkel, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH

  
 
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