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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.6.2.3
Putting Randomized Compiler Testing into Production (Artifact)

Authors: Alastair F. Donaldson, Hugues Evrard, and Paul Thomson

Published in: DARTS, Volume 6, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)

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This artifact accompanies our experience report for our compiler testing technology transfer project: taking the GraphicsFuzz research project on randomized metamorphic testing of graphics shader compilers, and building the necessary tooling around it to provide a highly automated process for improving the Khronos Vulkan Conformance Test Suite (CTS) with test cases that expose fuzzer-found compiler bugs, or that plug gaps in test coverage. The artifact consists of two Dockerfiles and associated files that can be used to build two Docker containers. The containers include our main tool for performing fuzzing: gfauto. The containers allow the user to fuzz SwiftShader, a software Vulkan implementation, finding 4 bugs. The user will also perform some line coverage analysis of SwiftShader using our tools to synthesize a small test that increases line coverage. Ubuntu, gfauto, SwiftShader, and other dependencies inside the Docker containers are fixed at specific versions, and all random seeds are set to specific values. Thus, all examples should reproduce faithfully on any machine.
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Alastair F. Donaldson, Hugues Evrard, and Paul Thomson. Putting Randomized Compiler Testing into Production (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 6, Issue 2, pp. 3:1-3:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@Article{donaldson_et_al:DARTS.6.2.3,
  author =	{Donaldson, Alastair F. and Evrard, Hugues and Thomson, Paul},
  title =	{{Putting Randomized Compiler Testing into Production (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{3:1--3:2},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{6},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Donaldson, Alastair F. and Evrard, Hugues and Thomson, Paul},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.6.2.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-132005},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.6.2.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Compilers, metamorphic testing, 3D graphics, experience report}
}
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Experience Report
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.22
Putting Randomized Compiler Testing into Production (Experience Report)

Authors: Alastair F. Donaldson, Hugues Evrard, and Paul Thomson

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 166, 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)

Abstract
We describe our experience over the last 18 months on a compiler testing technology transfer project: taking the GraphicsFuzz research project on randomized metamorphic testing of graphics shader compilers, and building the necessary tooling around it to provide a highly automated process for improving the Khronos Vulkan Conformance Test Suite (CTS) with test cases that expose fuzzer-found compiler bugs, or that plug gaps in test coverage. We present this tooling for test automation - gfauto - in detail, as well as our use of differential coverage and test case reduction as a method for automatically synthesizing tests that fill coverage gaps. We explain the value that GraphicsFuzz has provided in automatically testing the ecosystem of tools for transforming, optimizing and validating Vulkan shaders, and the challenges faced when testing a tool ecosystem rather than a single tool. We discuss practical issues associated with putting automated metamorphic testing into production, related to test case validity, bug de-duplication and floating-point precision, and provide illustrative examples of bugs found during our work.
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Alastair F. Donaldson, Hugues Evrard, and Paul Thomson. Putting Randomized Compiler Testing into Production (Experience Report). In 34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 166, pp. 22:1-22:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{donaldson_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.22,
  author =	{Donaldson, Alastair F. and Evrard, Hugues and Thomson, Paul},
  title =	{{Putting Randomized Compiler Testing into Production}},
  booktitle =	{34th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2020)},
  pages =	{22:1--22:29},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-154-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{166},
  editor =	{Hirschfeld, Robert and Pape, Tobias},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-131791},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2020.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Compilers, metamorphic testing, 3D graphics, experience report}
}
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