An empirical comparison of compiler testing techniques
Junjie Chen, Wenxiang Hu, Dan Hao, Yingfei Xiong, Hongyu Zhang, Lu Zhang, Bing Xie · 2016
Compilers, as one of the most important infrastructure of today's digital world, are expected to be trustworthy. Different testing techniques are developed for testing compilers automatically. However, it is unknown so far how these testing techniques compared to each other in terms of testing effectiveness: how many bugs a testing technique can find within a time limit.