Poster: Dynamic Analysis Using JavaScript Proxies

Author

Christophe, Laurent ; De Roover, Coen ; De Meuter, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Software Languages Lab., Vrije Univ. Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Volume

2

fYear

2015

Firstpage

813

Lastpage

814

Abstract

JavaScript has become a popular programming language. However, its highly dynamic nature encumbers static analysis for quality assurance purposes. Only dynamic techniques such as concolic testing seem to cope. Often, these involve an instrumentation phase in which source code is extended with analysis-specific concerns. The corresponding implementations represent a duplication of engineering efforts. To facilitate developing dynamic analyses for JavaScript, we introduce Aran; a general-purpose JavaScript instrumenter that takes advantage of proxies, a recent addition to the JavaScript reflection APIs.

Keywords

Java; authoring languages; program diagnostics; program testing; quality assurance; software quality; source code (software); Aran general-purpose JavaScript instrumenter; JavaScript proxies; JavaScript reflection APIs; concolic testing; dynamic program analysis; instrumentation phase; programming language; quality assurance; source code; static program analysis; Browsers; Instruments; Performance analysis; Runtime; Shadow mapping; Testing; Dynamic Analysis; ECMAScript6; Harmony Proxy; Instrumentation; JavaScript;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (ICSE), 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.2015.261

Filename

7203082