2012  IBM CAS Project of the Year: Efficient and Scalable Mapping of Mobile and Complex Rich Internet
Applications for Automated Security Testing

The ability
to “crawl” Web sites and Web applications is at the core of the Internet.
Crawling is necessary to indexing, searching and security testing operations.
With the rise of “Rich Internet Applications” (RIA) there is a tremendous gain
in end-user experience, but it is becoming harder to automatically crawl these
Web sites. Another recent evolution in computing is the move to everything
mobile. Mobile applications are bound to replace desktop applications in the
coming years. It is therefore critical to develop crawling tools adapted to
this new paradigm.

The objective of
this research is to provide efficient and scalable crawling techniques that
work on real life RIAs and mobile applications, and does so entirely
automatically. It builds on the results of our previous research, but tackles
the open problem that some RIA are simply too large to be crawled exhaustively.

The project was awarded by
IBM with the "Project of the year 2012" distinction based on the
following criteria:

• Excel as a research center for the
  advancements of applied science in research areas strategic to IBM
• Harvest and transfer results from advanced research to strategic products and
  initiatives
• Build and foster relationships among researchers, IBM and Customers
• Expose IBM developers to current research directions, and identify new and
  emerging technology issues for academic research.

The award was presented at CASCON 2012.
The research is done in collaboration with University of Ottawa.