Poster: Dynamic Analysis Using JavaScript Proxies

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 analys...

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Published in:2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Vol. 2; pp. 813 - 814
Main Authors: Christophe, Laurent, De Roover, Coen, De Meuter, Wolfgang
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.05.2015
Subjects:
Browsers
Dynamic Analysis
ECMAScript6
Harmony Proxy
Instrumentation
Instruments
JavaScript
Performance analysis
Runtime
Shadow mapping
Testing
ISSN:0270-5257
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0270-5257
DOI:10.1109/ICSE.2015.261