Register to join the June 24, 2026 ALCF Developer Session webinar, “Boosting Productivity and Enabling Accelerated Development with GitLab CI and Reframe,” on how granular, automated software testing can improve productivity in scientific software development.
Granular, automated software testing is an essential part of the modern software development life cycle. Increasingly, the scientific computing community has adopted this best practice; however, the time investment is often viewed as taking away from other research and development efforts. In this talk, we will make the value proposition that frequent, incremental, sustained investment in automated testing of scientific software will boost your team’s productivity and create a platform for accelerated development now and in the future.
Topics covered will include ALCF’s GitLab CI, which enables the execution of automated tests on production systems like Aurora and Polaris, and Reframe—a powerful Python framework for developing scalable and portable application tests on HPC systems. Projects employing these tools will be used as examples. Finally, we will present potential use cases for teams ranging from end users of application software who run exclusively on ALCF systems to developers of scientific libraries deployed across multiple HPC sites and platforms.
Kris Rowe is a Computational Scientist in the Performance Engineering Group at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. His work focuses on the performance and portability of high-order methods and computational fluid dynamics codes on current and future ALCF systems. Kris holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Waterloo and was a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at Cornell University.
Brian Homerding is a Computer Scientist in the Performance Engineering Group within the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). His interests include high performance portability frameworks and leadership-class system acceptance testing. Brian received Master of Science degrees from Northwestern University and Northern Illinois University.