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Type Analysis for JavaScript Simon Holm Jensen1,⋆, Anders Møller1,⋆,† , and Peter Thiemann2 1 Aarhus University, Denmark {simonhj,amoeller}@cs.au.dk 2 Universit¨at Freiburg, Germany thiemann@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Abstract. JavaScript is the main scripting language for Web browsers, and it is essential to modern Web applications. Programmers have started using it for writing complex applications, but there is still little tool support available during development. We present a static program analysis infrastructure that can infer de- tailed and sound type information for JavaScript programs using abstract interpretation. The analysis is designed to support the full language as defined in the ECMAScript standard, including its peculiar object model and all built-in functions. The analysis results can be used to detect common programming errors – or rather, prove their absence, and for producing type information for program comprehension. Preliminary experiments conducted on real-life JavaScript code indicate that the approach is promising regarding analysis precision on small and medium size programs, which constitute the majority of JavaScript appli- cations. With potential for further improvement, we propose the analysis as a foundation for building tools that can aid JavaScript programmers. 1 Introduction In 1995, Netscape announced JavaScript as an “easy-to-use object scripting lan- guage designed for creating live online applications that link together objects and resources on both clients and servers” [25]. Since then, it has become the de facto standard for client-side scripting in Web bro