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Fortran Testing and Refactoring Infrastructure

Award Information
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Branch: N/A
Contract: NNX10CD83P
Agency Tracking Number: 095115
Amount: $99,978.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: S6.05
Solicitation Number: N/A
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2009
Award Year: 2010
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2010-01-29
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2010-07-29
Small Business Information
5621 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite A
Boulder, CO 80303-1379
United States
DUNS: 806486692
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 David Alexander
 Principal Investigator
 (303) 448-0727
 alexanda@txcorp.com
Business Contact
 Leslie Rosczyk
Title: Business Official
Phone: (720) 974-1855
Email: lwr@txcorp.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Tech-X proposes to develop a comprehensive Fortran testing and
refactoring infrastructure that allows developers and scientists to
leverage the benefits of a comprehensive Integrated Developer
Environment (IDE). An intriguing aspect of the infrastructure is
the integration of performance measurement and monitoring from within
the IDE that allows developers to get immediate feedback about
tests, the overall application and modifications due to refactoring. Our goal isto promote modern software engineering methodology to a broad spectrum ofFortran users.
The infrastructure will facilitate refactoring newly developed and legacy codes correctly and accurately for single and multi-processor applications and will provide facility for both unit
and regression testing. Major benefits to refactoring include creating robust codes that are more easily ported to different hardware and software platforms and promoting extensibility and collaboration. For example, refactoring code to remove common blocks allows porting to multi-core architectures with increased thread safety while promoting best software engineering practices.

By leveraging the existing capabilities of pFUnit (an xUnit variant that
supports Fortran) and Photran (a Fortran Integrated Development Environment and Eclipse plugin) we will be able to quickly contribute to the Fortrandeveloper community, whos feedback we hope to use to guide our product development.

* Information listed above is at the time of submission. *

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