WebJShrink: A Web Service for Debloating Java Bytecode (Teaser, ESEC/FSE 2020)

"WebJShrink: A Web Service for Debloating Java Bytecode (Teaser, ESEC/FSE 2020)
Konner Macias, Mihir Mathur, Bobby R. Bruce, Tianyi Zhang, and Miryung Kim
(University of California at Los Angeles, USA; University of California at Los Angeles, USA; University of California at Los Angeles, USA; Harvard University, USA; University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

Abstract: As software projects grow in complexity, they come packaged with under-utilized libraries and therefore become bloated. Though several software debloating tools exist, none of them help developers gain insights into how under-utilized those libraries are nor help developers build confidence in the behavior preservation of software after debloating. To bridge this gap, we developed WebJShrink, a visual analytics tool for analyzing and pruning bloated software projects. WebJShrink is built on JShrink which uses static and dynamic reachability analysis to determine the extent of software bloat. WebJShrink provides rich visualizations of the bloat lurking within a target project's internal structure. It then removes unused features, and returns a safer, slimmer variant of the software project. To illustrate the target project's behavior preservation, WebJShrink examines the debloated software with its JUnit tests and visualizes the test results. In evaluating WebJShrink against 26 real world systems, we found WebJShrink could reduce software size by up to 42%, 11% on average, while still passing 100% of unit tests after debloating. We provide a video demonstrating WebJShrink at https://youtu.be/yzVzcd-MJ1w.

Article: https://doi.org/10.1145/3368089.3417934

Supplementary web page: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12518474

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7773-8906

Submitted to the conference by Konner Macias on 2020-10-25

Video Tags: Java bytecode reduction, debloating, JShrink, software optimization, fse20demo-p28-p, DOI: 10.1145/3368089.3417934, ORCID: 0000-0002-7773-8906

Presentation at the ESEC/FSE 2020 conference, November 8–13, 2020, https://2020.esec-fse.org/
Sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT, https://www.sigsoft.org/

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