Evaluating workloads using comparative functional coverage

We introduce comparative functional coverage—a technique for comparing the coverage of multiple workloads—and the tool in which it was implemented, FoCuS. The need to compare workloads and the use of functional coverage as a technique to explore data are not new. However, the use of functional cover...

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Published in:International journal on software tools for technology transfer 2011-06, Vol.13 (3), p.207-221
Main Authors: Adler, Yoram, Blue, Dale, Conti, Thomas, Prewitt, Richard, Ur, Shmuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer programs
Computer Science
Data sources
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Hvc 2008
Software
Software Engineering
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
Software quality
Technology transfer
Theory of Computation
Workload
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Summary:We introduce comparative functional coverage—a technique for comparing the coverage of multiple workloads—and the tool in which it was implemented, FoCuS. The need to compare workloads and the use of functional coverage as a technique to explore data are not new. However, the use of functional coverage for comparing workloads has not been addressed as a method that responds to this long unanswered need. We describe our work in augmenting a functional coverage tool so it can handle multiple data sources. We present the data and include an experiment that shows the usefulness of this method.
ISSN:1433-2779
1433-2787
DOI:10.1007/s10009-010-0165-7