I wrote a tool called Lithium that automatically reduces large testcases, such as real-world web pages or testcases produced by jsfunfuzz. It can usually reduce a 3000-line jsfunfuzz crash testcase to 3-10 lines in several minutes, considerably faster than I can reduce by hand. Perhaps more importantly, I can do something else while it reduces the testcase.

There are two (related) reasons I'm not calling it "Lithium 1.0" yet. First, I'm hoping to improve the way "interestingness tests" are written. Currently, they're separate programs that communicate to Lithium using their exit code, which limits error handling and might slow Lithium down. I'd like to make the interestingness tests be Python files, but I'm not sure what the best way to do that is. (Should Lithium __import__ the interestingness test? Or should the interestingness test import Lithium and be renamed to e.g. "reduce_crash.py"?)

Second, it would be useful to be able to pass extra arguments to the program being tested. For example, it would be useful to be able to pass a profile name to Firefox, or to pass a Firefox path to Valgrind. One possibility is to put the program being tested last on the command line, so extra positional arguments become options to that program. This solution would only work for interestingness tests that launch a single program (so it wouldn't work for a "renders differently in these two Firefox builds" test, for example), but maybe that's okay. Another possibility is to require the use of a config file for passing arguments to programs being tested (so you don't end up typing all of ".../firefox-bin -P foo" on Lithium's command line).

I'll probably use the MIT license for Lithium (but not for timed_run.py, which was mostly written by Chris Cooper and Bob Clary).