The JavaScript Debug Robot

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A software JavaScript debugging robot automatically explores HTML and JS, instruments the browser runtime (custom WebKit JavaScript core), analyzes event handlers at runtime, and generates inputs including values that satisfy regexes to force different branches. A small conductor API lets tests mix directed steps with the automatic explorer, watchers and goals declare success, and the system reports exceptions and coverage gaps. A beta is online and the team plans a V8 port for Node integration.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:54You know bugs
3. 3:30What can you do
4. 4:50Testing techniques
5. 6:20Automatic exploration
6. 9:01Good for
7. 10:21Connector API
8. 13:16Technology
9. 13:56Conclusion
10. 14:40Outro

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