[Pl-seminar] 10/23: Nicholas R. Labich, "Analyzing JavaScript: The Bad Parts"

[Vincent St-Amour]

Reminder: Nick is speaking at 11:45.

Vincent


At Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:32:46 -0400,
Vincent St-Amour wrote:
> 
> NUPRL Seminar presents
> 
> Nicholas R. Labich
> NUPRL
> 
> 11:45 - 1:30
> Wednesday, 10/23
> Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
> 
> Analyzing JavaScript: The Bad Parts
> 
> JavaScript is popular, powerful, and flagrantly dynamic. It is a relatively
> young language with a low barrier to entry and massive amounts of code in the
> wild. As such, tools that allow programmers to reason about the language are
> increasingly valuable. Much of the research to date targets subsets of
> JavaScript, eliding the darker corners of the language (the bad parts).
> 
> In this talk, I discuss static analysis of JavaScript including the bad parts:
> property and object descriptors, getters and setters, strict mode, and
> eval. Leveraging LambdaS5, a core semantics encapsulating the ECMAScript 5.1
> standard, I detail the approach, implementation, and difficulties involved
> with the abstract interpretation of full, modern JavaScript.
> 
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