[Pl-seminar] Sukyoung to speak on Feb 19

[Matthias Felleisen]

[[ Yes, it's a Friday not a Thursday. ]]


On Jan 7, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

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> Mark the date: Thursday, 19 Feb @ 11:45, WVH 366 
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> Journey to Find Bugs in Real-World Web Applications in the Wild
> 
> Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST 
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> Analyzing real-world web applications is a challenging task. 
> On top of understanding the semantics of JavaScript, it 
> requires modeling of web documents, platform objects, and 
> interactions between them. Most web applications load JavaScript 
> code dynamically, which makes pure static analysis approaches inapplicable.
> In this talk, we present our journey to analyze JavaScript web applications
> in the wild using various approaches. From pure JavaScript programs to 
> JavaScript web applications using platform-specific libraries, we 
> explain technical challenges in analyzing each of them and how we built 
> an open-source analysis framework for JavaScript, SAFE, that addresses 
> the challenges incrementally.  Finally, we discuss our ongoing work 
> on analysis of Android hybrid applications.
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