An extensible approach for taming the challenges of JavaScript dead code elimination
| Autor: | Gian Luca Scoccia, Niels Groot Obbink, Ivano Malavolta, Patricia Lago |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Software and Sustainability (S2), Software & Services |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Dead code Programming language Computer science business.industry Suite 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Reuse computer.software_genre JavaScript Extensibility Dead code elimination 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Web application 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy business computer computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2018-Proceedings, 402-412 STARTPAGE=402;ENDPAGE=412;TITLE=25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2018-Proceedings Obbink, N G, Malavolta, I, Scoccia, G L & Lago, P 2018, An extensible approach for taming the challenges of JavaScript dead code elimination . in 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2018-Proceedings ., 8330226, IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)-Proceedings, no. March, vol. 2018, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 402-412, 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, SANER 2018, Campobasso, Italy, 20/03/18 . https://doi.org/10.1109/SANER.2018.8330226 SANER |
| DOI: | 10.1109/SANER.2018.8330226 |
| Popis: | JavaScript is becoming the de-facto programming language of the Web. Large-scale web applications (web apps) written in Javascript are commonplace nowadays, with big technology players (e.g., Google, Facebook) using it in their core flagship products. Today, it is common practice to reuse existing JavaScript code, usually in the form of third-party libraries and frameworks. If on one side this practice helps in speeding up development time, on the other side it comes with the risk of bringing dead code, i.e., JavaScript code which is never executed, but still downloaded from the network and parsed in the browser. This overhead can negatively impact the overall performance and energy consumption of the web app. In this paper we present Lacuna, an approach for JavaScript dead code elimination, where existing JavaScript analysis techniques are applied in combination. The proposed approach supports both static and dynamic analyses, it is extensible, and independent of the specificities of the used JavaScript analysis techniques. Lacuna can be applied to any JavaScript code base, without imposing any constraints to the developer, e.g., on her coding style or on the use of some specific JavaScript feature (e.g., modules). Lacuna has been evaluated on a suite of 29 publicly-available web apps, composed of 15,946 JavaScript functions, and built with different JavaScript frameworks (e.g., Angular, Vue.js, jQuery). Despite being a prototype, Lacuna obtained promising results in terms of analysis execution time and precision. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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