The Scalability-Efficiency/Maintainability-Portability Trade-Off in Simulation Software Engineering: Examples and a Preliminary Systematic Literature Review

Pflüger, Dirk; Mehl, Miriam; Valentin, Julian; Lindner, Florian; Pfander, David; Wagner, Stefan; Graziotin, Daniel; Yang, Wen‐Ching

doi:10.1109/se-hpccse.2016.008

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“…The study on test suite reusability is related to portability has been reported that in the test suite reuse effective at discovering and repairing bugs inserted during pragmatic reuse [13]. Reducing number of test cases and ability of the test cases reused to examine another object should be considered to improve the maintainability [14] [15].…”

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Proposal of a Method to Measure Test Suite Quality Attributes for White-Box Testing

Saputra¹,

Katayama²

2021

IJACSA

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As an important asset in software testing, measuring quality attributes of the test suite is important to describe the quality of software. This research proposes a method to measure the test suite quality attributes for white-box testing. The attributes are usability, efficiency, reliability, functionality, portability, and maintainability that are selected from 28 attributes in software quality. By using the proposed method, the test suite quality attributes are calculated with various results of level of quality. The result of test suite quality attribute measurement then proves the validity of its result by the reliability analysis. It is used Cohen's kappa coefficient to validating the result of test suite quality attributes measurement based on the level of agreement between the result of measurement and expert assessment. Reliability analysis on test suite quality attribute finds the attribute that strongly related based on the minimum percentage of level of agreement value are usability, reliability and functionality. Hence, our proposed method is useful to measure test suite quality attributes.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Proposal of a Method to Measure Test Suite Quality Attributes for White-Box Testing

Saputra¹,

Katayama²

2021

IJACSA

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“…A call to this extended implementation mkl_daxpby is shown in the highlighted box on the RHS of Figure 1. The two original operations in equations (1,2) can be rewritten as a single operation by substituting for r 3 in equation (2) to give…”

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Type-Directed Program Synthesis and Constraint Generation for Library Portability

Collie

Ginsbach

O’Boyle

2019

2019 28th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)

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Fast numerical libraries have been a cornerstone of scientific computing for decades, but this comes at a price. Programs may be tied to vendor specific software ecosystems resulting in polluted, non-portable code. As we enter an era of heterogeneous computing, there is an explosion in the number of accelerator libraries required to harness specialized hardware. We need a system that allows developers to exploit ever-changing accelerator libraries, without over-specializing their code.As we cannot know the behavior of future libraries ahead of time, this paper develops a scheme that assists developers in matching their code to new libraries, without requiring the source code for these libraries.Furthermore, it can recover equivalent code from programs that use existing libraries and automatically port them to new interfaces. It first uses program synthesis to determine the meaning of a library, then maps the synthesized description into generalized constraints which are used to search the program for replacement opportunities to present to the developer.We applied this approach to existing large applications from the scientific computing and deep learning domains. Using our approach, we show speedups ranging from 1.1× to over 10× on end to end performance when using accelerator libraries.

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“…Second, The Scalability-Efficiency/Maintainability-Portability Trade-Off in Simulation Software Engineering: Examples and a Preliminary Systematic Literature Review by Dirk Pflüger and colleagues (full paper), describes a literature review to summarize proposed solutions for the trade-off and discuss findings from simulation software engineering. The overall observation from the work is that there is not yet a strong empirical foundation upon which to draw conclusions and additional study is needed [6]. Third, Computational Efficiency vs. Maintainability and Portability.…”

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The 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for HPC in Computational Science and Engineering

2017

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Despite the increasing demand for utilizing HPC for CSE applications, software development for HPC historically attracted little attention from the SE community. Paradoxically, the HPC CSE community has increasingly been adopting SE techniques and tools. Indeed, the development of CSE software for HPC differs significantly from the development of more traditional business inforåmation systems, from which many SE best practices and tools have been drawn. This workshop, the fourth in the series to be co-located with the Supercomputing conference series, examined two main topics: testing and trade-offs. Through presentations of work in this area and structured group discussions, the participants highlighted some of the key issues, as well as indicating the direction the community needed to go. In particular, there is a need for more high-quality research in this area that we can use as an evidence base to help developers of CSE applications to change practice and benefit from advances in software engineering.

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The Scalability-Efficiency/Maintainability-Portability Trade-Off in Simulation Software Engineering: Examples and a Preliminary Systematic Literature Review

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Proposal of a Method to Measure Test Suite Quality Attributes for White-Box Testing

Proposal of a Method to Measure Test Suite Quality Attributes for White-Box Testing

Type-Directed Program Synthesis and Constraint Generation for Library Portability

The 4th International Workshop on Software Engineering for HPC in Computational Science and Engineering

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