Abstract:
Since 2015, the JavaScript language has rapidly evolved with a yearly release cadence and open development process. However, it results in the gap between the language specification written in English and tools, such as parsers, interpreters, and static analyzers, which makes language designers and tool developers suffer from manually filling the gap. JISET and its extensions lessen the burden by automatically extracting a mechanized specification from the language specification in prose.

We introduce several tools in the JISET family and show how they fill the gap between the language specification and tools. We then discuss how to apply this technique to WebAssembly.

Bio:
Sukyoung Ryu is a Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Head of the School of Computing, KAIST. Her research area includes programming languages, software engineering, and information security. She received research awards from Google and Distinguished Paper Awards from ACM SIGSOFT. She is currently an associate editor of IEEE TSE, a member of ACM SIGPLAN CARES. She holds BS, MS, and PhD, all in Computer Science, from KAIST. Before KAIST, she worked at Sun Microsystems and Harvard University.