Paper Info
Title
Fast reproducing web application errors
Abstract
JavaScript has become the most popular language for client-side web applications. Due to JavaScript's highly-dynamic features and event-driven design, it is not easy to debug web application errors. Record-replay techniques are widely used to reproduce errors in web applications. However, the key events related to an error are hidden in the massive event trace collected during a long running. As a result, error diagnosis with the long event trace is exhausting and time-consuming. We present a tool JSTrace that can effectively cut down the web application error reproducing time and facilitate the diagnosis. Based on the dynamic dependencies of JavaScript and DOM instructions, we develop a novel dynamic slicing technique that can remove events irrelevant to the error reproducing. In this process, many events and related instructions are removed without losing the reproducing accuracy. Our evaluation shows that the reduced event trace can faithfully reproduce errors with an average reduction rate of 96%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ISSRE.2015.7381845
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
record-replay, dynamic slicing, event trace reduction, dependency analysis
Programming language,Computer science,Slicing,Unobtrusive JavaScript,Real-time computing,Web application,Application error,JavaScript,Debugging
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.44
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jie Wang1213.04
Wenshen Dou210015.17
Chushu Gao3729.84
Jun Wei458288.35