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WASim: understanding WebAssembly applications through classification

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ASE '20: Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Pages 1321 - 1325

https://doi.org/10.1145/3324884.3415293

Published: 27 January 2021 Publication History

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WebAssembly is a new programming language built for better performance in web applications. It defines a binary code format and a text representation for the code. At first glance, WebAssembly files are not easily understandable to human readers, regardless of the experience level. As a result, distributed third-party WebAssembly modules need to be implicitly trusted by developers as verifying the functionality requires significant effort. To this end, we develop an automated classification tool WASim for identifying the purpose of WebAssembly programs by analyzing features at the module-level. It assigns purpose labels to a module in order to assist developers in understanding the binary module. The code for WASim is available at https://github.com/WASimilarity/WASim and a video demo is available at https://youtu.be/usfYFIeTy0U.

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ASE '20: Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

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ISBN:9781450367684

DOI:10.1145/3324884

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Romano AWang WChandra SBlincoe KTonella P(2023)When Function Inlining Meets WebAssembly: Counterintuitive Impacts on Runtime PerformanceProceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering10.1145/3611643.3616311(350-362)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2023
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Liu ZXiao DLi ZWang SMeng WJust RFraser G(2023)Exploring Missed Optimizations in WebAssembly OptimizersProceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis10.1145/3597926.3598068(436-448)Online publication date: 12-Jul-2023
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