Re: test suite generation for Fortran compiler testing

henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
11 Dec 2004 12:25:30 -0500

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From: henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Dec 2004 12:25:30 -0500
Organization: SP Systems, Toronto, Canada
References: 04-11-086 04-11-093
Keywords: Fortran, testing
Posted-Date: 11 Dec 2004 12:25:30 EST

our moderator wrote:
>[Someone did some embarassing stress tests of Unix utilities by feeding
>them streams of random bytes as input. Nearly all of them crashed. -John]


Still more embarrassing... George Carrette's infamous CRASHME program
generated a block of random instructions and then executed it. This
crashed a number of operating systems (!), which weren't as robust
against bizarre user-program behavior as their maintainers/porters
thought.


Such random "kick the box" testing is well worth doing.
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"Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer
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