Recent Publications


 

"SoftTest: A framework for software testing of Java programs"
B. R. Childers, M. L. Soffa, J. Beaver, L. Ber, K. Cammarata, T. Kane, J. Litman, and J. Misurda
to appear at the Eclipse Technology Exchange (eTX) Workshop, during the ACM SIGPLAN Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, October 27, 2003.
An earlier version is available as Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh, Technical Report TR-03-103, August 2003.

 

"Compact binaries with code compression in a software dynamic translator"
Stacey Shogan and Bruce R. Childers
Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh, Technical Report TR-03-102, September 2003.

 

"The limits of speculative trace reuse on deeply pipelined processors"
M. L. Pilla, P. O. A. Navaux, A. T. da Costa, F. M. G. Franca, B. R. Childers and M. L. Soffa
The 15th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Sao Paulo/SP, Brazil, November 2003.

 

"Predicting the impact of optimizations for embedded systems"
Min Zhao, Bruce R. Childers, and Mary Lou Soffa
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, San Diego, California, June 2003.

 

"Continuous compilation: A new approach to aggressive and adaptive code transformation"

Bruce Childers, Jack Davidson, and Mary Lou Soffa

NSF Next Generation Software Workshop, during the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Nice, France, April 2003

 

"Flexible Instrumentation for software dynamic translation"
Naveen Kumar and Bruce Childers
Workshop on Exploring the Trace Space for Dynamic Optimization Techniques, during the International Conference on Supercomputing, San Francisco, California, June 2003

 

"Retargetable and Reconfigurable Software Dynamic Translation"
K. Scott, N. Kumar, S. Velusamy, B. Childers, J. Davidson, and M. L. Soffa,
Int'l. Conf. on Code Generation and Optimization, San Francisco, California, March 2003.

 

"FPO: A Framework for Predicting the Impact of Optimizations"
M. Zhao, B. Childers, and M. L. Soffa,
University of Pittsburgh, Technical Report No. TR-02-102, Nov, 2002.