Janus: Detecting Rendering Bugs in Web Browsers via Visual Delta Consistency

• Published in: Proceedings / International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 2702 - 2713
• Main Authors: Zhou, Chijin, Zhang, Quan, Qian, Bingzhou, Jiang, Yu
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 26.04.2025
• Subjects: browser reliability; browser testing; Browsers; bug detection; Computer bugs; fuzzing; Heart; Rendering (computer graphics); rendering bugs; Software engineering; test oracle; Testing; Visualization

Rendering lies at the heart of our modern web experience. However, the correctness of browser rendering is not always guaranteed, often leading to rendering bugs. Traditional differential testing, while successful in various domains, falls short when applied to rendering bug detection because an HTM...