TypeScript

TypeScript Analysis in Prime Video

TypeScript is a typed version of JavaScript widely used across Amazon, but poses challenges for static analysis: The language supports many intricate features used in practice, such as callbacks and higher-order functions, dynamic field access, and asynchronous code. At the same time, the size of industrial code bases such as the Prime Video application makes a highly precise whole-program analysis intractable. In this talk, we present how we approach this trade-off in Prime Video with a lightweight whole-program analysis followed by a more precise goal-directed analysis of potential bug locations. Our goal-directed analysis uses an imprecise call graph and points-to information generated upfront to guide a more expensive goal-directed analysis that attempts to prove that potential bugs cannot happen via abstract interpretation backed by an SMT solver.