Paper Info
Title
Static Analysis of JavaScript Web Applications in the Wild via Practical DOM Modeling (T)
Abstract
We present SAFEWapp, an open-source static analysis framework for JavaScript web applications. It provides a faithful (partial) model of web application execution environments of various browsers, based on empirical data from the main web pages of the 9,465 most popular websites. A main feature of SAFEWapp is the configurability of DOM tree abstraction levels to allow users to adjust a trade-off between analysis performance and precision depending on their applications. We evaluate SAFEWapp on the 5 most popular JavaScript libraries and the main web pages of the 10 most popular websites in terms of analysis performance, precision, and modeling coverage. Additionally, as an application of SAFEWapp, we build a bug detector for JavaScript web applications that uses static analysis results from SAFEWapp. Our bug detector found previously undiscovered bugs including ones from wikipedia.org and amazon.com.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ASE.2015.27
Automated Software Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
javascript Web application,SAFEWapp,open-source static analysis,Web sites,DOM tree abstraction level,bug detector
Static web page,Web page,Computer science,Unobtrusive JavaScript,Ajax,Web modeling,Web application,Dynamic web page,Rich Internet application,Database
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1527-1366
10
0.51
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Changhee Park1142.38
Sooncheol Won2100.51
Joonho Jin3100.51
Sukyoung Ryu418525.77