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The evolution and testing of a medium sized numerical package

Barnes, David J., Hopkins, Tim (2000) The evolution and testing of a medium sized numerical package. In: Langtangen, Hans Petter and Bruaset, Are Magnus and Quak, Ewald, eds. Advances In Software Tools For Scientific Computing. 10. pp. 225-237. Springer-Verlag Berlin ISBN 3-540-66557-9. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:16087)

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Abstract

We investigate the evolution of a medium sized software package, LAPACK, through its public releases over the last six years and establish a correlation, at a subprogram level, between a simply computable software metric value and the number of coding errors detected in the released routines. We also quantify the code changes made between issues of the package and attempt to categorize the reasons for these changes. We then consider the testing strategy used with LAPACK. Currently this consists of a large number of mainly self-checking driver programs along with sets of configuration files. These suites of test codes run a very large number of test cases and consume significant amounts of cpu time. We attempt to quantify how successful this testing strategy is from the viewpoint of the coverage of the executable statements within the routines being tested.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Additional information: Document Type: Proceedings Paper
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: David Barnes
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2009 19:22 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:54 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/16087 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Barnes, David J..

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6073-0951
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Hopkins, Tim.

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