With tons of efforts spent on its mitigation, Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most
prevalent security threats on the internet. Decades of exploitation and remediation …

To harness the potential of edge resources, two-tier client-cloud applications require
transformation into three-tier client-edge-cloud applications. Such transformations are hard …

In a mobile web app, a browser-based client communicates with a cloud-based server
across the network. An app is statically divided into client and server functionalities, so the …

The execution of modern web applications is affected by distribution, mobility, and
heterogeneity. The design-time assumptions of web applications rarely correspond to their …

In a mobile web app, a browser-based client communicates with a cloud-based server
across the network. An app is statically divided into client and server functionalities, so the …

We present Shear, a new system that observes and manipulates the interaction between an
application and its surrounding environment to learn a model of the behavior of the …

Software now plays a central role in numerous aspects of human society. Current software
development practices involve significant developer effort in all phases of the software life …

Consider Bookworm, an e-reader app for reading books on mobile devices. The app also
provides text analysis features that report various statistical facts about the read books. The …

Developers often need to re-engineer distributed applications to address changes in
requirements, made only after deployment. Much of the complexity of inspecting and …

Developers often need to re-engineer distributed applications to address changes in
requirements, made only after deployment and usage. Much of the complexity of inspecting …