Automated Software Testing of JavaScript Web Applications

Modern software is becoming more and more complex and manual testing cannot keep up with the need for high-quality reliable software: often due to the complexity of event-driven software, manual testing is done. This comes with many disadvantages in comparison with automated testing. The increased importance of having a secure, reliable online...

In Dependencies We Trust: How vulnerable are dependencies in software modules?

Web-enabled services hold valuable information that attracts attackers to exploit services for unauthorized access. The transparency of Open-Source projects, shallow screening of hosted projects on public software repositories and access to vulnerability databases pave the way for attackers to gain strategic information to exploit software...

Authorship Identification and Verification of JavaScript Source Code: An Evaluation of Techniques

The increasing number of criminals that exploit the speed and anonymity of the Web has become of increasing concern. Little effort has been spent to trace the authors of malicious code. To that end we investigated authorship identification and verification of JavaScript source code. We evaluated three character based approaches and propose a new...