Re: Compiler stress tests?

Duane Sand <d.sand@ix.netcom.com>
3 Jan 1997 23:05:51 -0500

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From: Duane Sand <d.sand@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Jan 1997 23:05:51 -0500
Organization: Netcom
References: 97-01-020
Keywords: testing

pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) wrote:
>Somebody asked me about this and I don't know the answer: where do you
>find compiler "stress test" generators/suites/etc.? Commercial
>products are fine.


About 10-15 years ago, there was a nice article in _Software Practise
& Experience_ about stress testing a compiler via a generator.
It used random expansions of grammar rules to generate text that
was correct in a context-free sense, and added corruptions to
that token stream. I don't recall what (if anything) it did about
having identifier uses be (mostly) consistent with declarations.


One nice way to exercise a parser's syntactic error recovery scheme
is to feed it valid source code from a different programming language.
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