Eric Larson's Software

EGRET: Evil Generation of Regular Expression Tests

• Description: Generates a list of accepting strings and rejected strings for a regular expression.  The generated strings are based on common mistakes when coding regular expressions.
• Developers: Eric Larson, Anna Kirk, Bryan Herr, and Nicolas Oman
• Software page
• More information:
• ICST 2016 paper

MDAT: A Multithreading Debugging and Testing Tool

• Description: A multithreading testing and debugging tool designed for students learning about concurrency and synchronization.
• Developers: Rochelle Palting, Eric Larson, Yanli Wu
• Download
• More information:
• MDAT Documentation
• SIGCSE 2013 paper
• SIGCSE 2013 slides

Permeate

• Description: Permeate analyzes an Android program to make sure that the permissions are properly specified.
• Developers: Sophie Dankel, Eric Larson, and Roshanak Roshandel.
• Download: Github repository

ANNA: A New Non-complex Architecture

• Description: ANNA is an assembler and simulator for a simple MIPS-based assembly language designed to be used in a computer organization course.
• Developers: Moon Ok Kim and Eric Larson
• Web interface (Developed by Seung Chan Lee)
• Windows (GUI) and Linux (Console) versions available (contact me for more information)
• More information:
• FIE 2008 paper
• FIE 2008 slides

SUDS

• Description: SUDS is an infrastructure for creating dynamic bug detection tools with support for static analysis.
• Developers: Eric Larson
• Download: Sourceforge page
• More information:
• User Guide
• Journal of Automated Software Engineering 2010 paper
• SCAM 2007 presentation

MASE / SimpleScalar

• Description: A suite of microarchitectural simulators.
• Developers: Eric Larson, Saugata Chatterjee, Dan Ernst, and Todd Austin.
• Download: Simplescalar home page (Note: I no longer work on MASE or SimpleScalar)
• More information:
• ISPASS 2001 paper
• ISPASS 2001 slides