Poster: Supporting JavaScript Experimentation with BugsJS

Abstract

In our recent work, we proposed BugsJS, a benchmark of several hundred bugs from popular JavaScript server-side programs. In this abstract paper, we report the results of our initial evaluation in adopting BugsJS to support an experiment in fault localization. First, we describe how BugsJS facilitated accessing the information required to perform the experiment, namely, test case code, their outcomes, their associated code coverage and related bug information. Second, we illustrate how BugsJS can be improved to further enable easier application to fault localization research, for instance, by filtering out failing test cases that do not directly contribute to a bug. We hope that our preliminary results will foster researchers in using BugsJS to enable highly-reproducible empirical studies and comparisons of JavaScript analysis and testing tools.

Publication
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST), , Pages 375–378

BibTeX:

@InProceedings{VGS19,
    author       = {B{\'e}la, Vancsics and P{\'e}ter, Gyimesi and Andrea, Stocco and Davood, Mazinanian and {\'A}rp{\'a}d, Besz{\'e}des and Rudolf, Ferenc and Ali, Mesbah},
    title        = {Poster: Supporting JavaScript Experimentation with BugsJS},
    booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST)},
    year         = {2019},
    pages        = {375--378},
    month        = apr,
    organization = {IEEE},
    doi          = {10.1109/ICST.2019.00046},
    url          = {https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/icst/2019/173600a375/1aDT4qKuv5u},
}