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GPCE 2016
Mon 31 October - Tue 1 November 2016 Amsterdam, Netherlands
co-located with SPLASH 2016
Tue 1 Nov 2016 16:40 - 17:10 at Zürich 1 - Testing and Verification Chair(s): Bernd Fischer

The intensive use of generative programming techniques provides an elegant engineering solution to deal with the heterogeneity of platforms and technological stacks. The use of domain-specific languages for example, leads to the creation of numerous code generators that automatically translate high-level system specifications into multi-target executable code. Producing correct and efficient code generator is complex and error-prone. Although software designers provide generally high-level test suites to verify the functional outcome of generated code, it remains challenging and tedious to verify the behavior of produced code in terms of non-functional properties. This paper describes a practical approach based on a runtime monitoring infrastructure to automatically check the potential inefficient code generators. This infrastructure, based on system containers as execution platforms, allows code-generator developers to evaluate the generated code performance. We evaluate our approach by analyzing the performance of Haxe, a popular high-level programming language that involves a set of cross-platform code generators. Experimental results show that our approach is able to detect some performance inconsistencies that reveal real issues in Haxe code generators.

Tool Poster (Poster Version.pdf)9.86MiB

Tue 1 Nov

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15:40 - 17:20
Testing and VerificationGPCE at Zürich 1
Chair(s): Bernd Fischer Stellenbosch University
15:40
30m
Talk
Automated Regression Testing of BPMN 2.0 Processes: A Capture & Replay Framework for Continuous Delivery
GPCE
Majid Makki iMinds-DistriNet, Dimitri Van Landuyt Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Wouter Joosen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
16:10
30m
Talk
A Vision for Online Verification-Validation
GPCE
Matthew Hammer University of Colorado, Boulder, Bor-Yuh Evan Chang University of Colorado Boulder, David Van Horn University of Maryland at College Park, USA
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16:40
30m
Talk
Automatic Non-functional Testing of Code Generators Families
GPCE
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