[Pl-seminar] Sukyoung to speak on Feb 19

[Matthias Felleisen]

Mark the date: Thursday, 19 Feb @ 11:45, WVH 366 

Journey to Find Bugs in Real-World Web Applications in the Wild

Sukyoung Ryu, KAIST 

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.