A Trusted Mechanised JavaScript Specification
- Submitting institution
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Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 2389
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.1145/2535838.2535876
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- ACM SIGPLAN Notices - POPL '14
- First page
- 87
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1523-2867
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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10.1145/2535838.2535876
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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7
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 17
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The JSCert mechanised specification of ECMA JavaScript Standard (https://github.com/jscert/) enables machine-checked proofs of properties of JavaScript programs. Bugs were reported in standard browser implementations and official test suites (https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/1044). The provably-correct reference implementation is thoroughly tested, see CAV'15 keynote (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21690-4_1). The authors are actively influencing ECMATC39 committee (invited talk NY'17; organised meetings in Paris'18/Imperial'19). JSCert methodology was used in WebAssembly mechanised specifications (https://github.com/WasmCert/WasmCert-Isabelle, see CPP'18 https://doi.org/10.1145/3167082). WasmCert-Isabelle identified errors in WebAssembly specifications and safety proofs, requiring correction before publication (PLDI'17, https://doi.org/10.1145/3062341.3062363). JSCert approach was fundamental to EPSRC/GCHQ project with Google for verification of Web programs (EP/K032089/1, £900K).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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