Characterizing and detecting bugs in WeChat mini-programs
Tao Wang, Qingxin Xu, Xiaoning Chang, Wensheng Dou, Jiaxin Zhu, Jinhui Xie, Yuetang Deng, Jianbo Yang, Jiaheng Yang, Jun Fang Wei, Tao Huang · Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering · 2022
Built on the WeChat social platform, WeChat Mini-Programs are widely used by more than 400 million users every day. Consequently, the reliability of Mini-Programs is particularly crucial. However, WeChat Mini-Programs suffer from various bugs related to execution environment, lifecycle management, asynchronous mechanism, etc. These bugs have seriously affected users' experience and caused serious impacts.