An Exploratory Study of Bugs in Extended Reality Applications on the Web

Li, Shuqing1; Wu, Yechang1; Liu, Yi1; Wang, Dinghua1,2; Wen, Ming3; Tao, Yida4; Sui, Yulei2; Liu, Yepang1

10.1109/ISSRE5003.2020.00025

2020

IEEE 31st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)

1071-9458

978-1-7281-9871-2

2020 IEEE 31ST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING (ISSRE 2020)

2020-October

172-183

OCT 12-15, 2020

null,null,ELECTR NETWORK

10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA

IEEE COMPUTER SOC

Extended Reality (XR) technologies are becoming increasingly popular in recent years. To help developers deploy XR applications on the Web, W3C released the WebXR Device API in 2019, which enable users to interact with browsers using XR devices. Given the convenience brought by WebXR, a growing number of WebXR projects have been deployed in practice. However, many WebXR applications are insufficiently tested before being released. They suffer from various bugs that can degrade user experience or cause undesirable consequences. Yet, the community has limited understanding towards the bugs in the WebXR ecosystem, which impedes the advance of techniques for assuring the reliability of WebXR applications. To bridge this gap, we conducted the first empirical study of WebXR bugs. We collected 368 real bugs from 33 WebXR projects hosted on GitHub. Via a seven-round manual analysis of these bugs, we built a taxonomy of WebXR bugs according to their symptoms and root causes. Furthermore, to understand the uniqueness of WebXR bugs, we compared them with bugs in conventional JavaScript programs and web applications. We believe that our findings can inspire future researches on relevant topics and we released our bug dataset to facilitate follow-up studies.

WebXR empirical study bug taxonomy

第一 ; 通讯

英语

CPCI-S ; EI

National Key Research and Development Program of China[SQ2019YFE010068] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[61932021,61802164] ; Australian Research Council[DP200101328]

Computer Science

Computer Science, Software Engineering

WOS:000713971100016

20205009607934

Program debugging ; Application programs

Computer Software, Data Handling and Applications:723 ; Computer Programming:723.1 ; Information Science:903

Web of Science

1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Comp Sci & Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China
2.Univ Technol Sydney, Fac Engr & IT, Sydney, NSW, Australia
3.Huazhong Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Cyber Sci & Engn, Wuhan, Peoples R China
4.Shenzhen Univ, Coll Comp Sci & Soft Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China

Li, Shuqing,Wu, Yechang,Liu, Yi,et al. An Exploratory Study of Bugs in Extended Reality Applications on the Web[C]. 10662 LOS VAQUEROS CIRCLE, PO BOX 3014, LOS ALAMITOS, CA 90720-1264 USA:IEEE COMPUTER SOC,2020:172-183.