DocumentCode
2414856
Title
Rex: A toolset for reproducing software experiments
Author
Perianayagam, Somu ; Andrews, Gregory R. ; Hartman, John H.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
fYear
2010
fDate
18-21 Dec. 2010
Firstpage
613
Lastpage
617
Abstract
Software experiments such as BLAST are hard to reproduce even if identical hardware is available because external data sets could have changed, software used in the original experiment may be unavailable, or the input parameters for the experiment may not be documented. This paper presents Rex, a toolset that allows one to record an experiment and archive its apparatus, replay an experiment, conduct new experiments on a recorded apparatus, and compare differences between experiments. The execution time overhead of recording experiments is on average about 2%; the space overhead of an archive ranges from 8 MB to 5 GB.
Keywords
bioinformatics; BLAST; Rex; external data sets; input parameters; software experiments; Bioinformatics; Databases; Kernel; Libraries; Monitoring;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2010 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8306-8
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-8307-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/BIBM.2010.5706639
Filename
5706639
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