Tool Support for Inspecting the Code Quality of HPC Applications

Authors:
Thomas Panas;Dan Quinlan;Richard Vuduc
Affiliations:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Venue:
ICSEW '07 Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The nature of HPC application development encourages ad hoc design and implementation, rather than formal requirements analysis and design specification as is typical in software engineering. However, we cannot simply expect HPC developers to adopt formal software engineering processes wholesale, even while there is a need to improve software structure and quality to ensure future maintainability. Therefore, we propose tools that HPC developers can use at their discretion to obtain feedback on the structure and quality of their codes. This feedback would come in the form of code quality metrics and analyses, presented when necessary in intuitive and interactive visualizations. This paper summarizes our implementation of just such a tool, which we apply to a standard HPC benchmark as "proofof- concept."