2 . 4 G Fix : Repair of Mockup Driven Development and Regression Problems

My research interests span the areas of software engineering, web technologies, and program analysis. Particularly, I focus on using search-based techniques to automatically repair presentation failures (UI problems) in web applications. Presentation failures are ubiquitous in modern web applications and can cause serious usability problems or significantly distort the intended appearance of a website. A common thread in my research is in understanding the characteristics of the different types of presentation failures in web applications, such as Crossbrowser Issues (XBIs), Mobile Friendly Problems, and Internationalization Presentation Failures, and designing efficient algorithms for repairing them, while maintaining the pages’ aesthetic quality. My experience of repairing different types of presentation failures helped me abstract their commonalities and points of specialization in a general-purpose framework using search-based techniques for the automated repair of presentation failures in web applications. I have designed and developed four instantiations of the framework, which have demonstrated high effectiveness in repairing the different types of presentation failures in web pages while maintaining their aesthetic quality. To the best of my knowledge, my work is the first automated approach for generating repairs for presentation failures, and the first to apply search-based repair techniques to web pages.