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Detecting missing thrown exceptions in enterprise systems: an empirical study

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ESEM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1852786.1852861

Published: 16 September 2010 Publication History

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Commonly enterprise systems are implemented using the object-oriented and relational paradigms, among which the communication is performed using various library methods for manipulating the persistent data. Most of the times the involved library methods throw different exceptions. An improper handling mechanism for these exceptions in the source code may bring different problems at runtime and hamper its maintenance. In this work we introduce an approach that automatically detects the methods from the source code which reveal an improper mechanism for handling exceptions involving database operations. The detected methods should be refactored in order to increase the reliability of the application, as well as its maintenance.

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Magiel Bruntink, Arie van Deursen, and Tom Tourwé. Discovering faults in idiom-based exception handling. In Proc. ICSE. ACM Press, 2006.

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Cristina Marinescu. DATES: Design analysis tool for enterprise systems. In Proc. SCAM. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2007.

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Detecting missing thrown exceptions in enterprise systems: an empirical study
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management

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ESEM '10: Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

September 2010

423 pages

ISBN:9781450300391

DOI:10.1145/1852786

General Chair:
Giancarlo Succi
Free University of Bolzano, Italy
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Program Chairs:
Maurizio Morisio
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Nachi Nagappan
Microsoft Research

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Published: 16 September 2010

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Romanian Ministry of Education and Research under Project PNII-IDEI

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ESEM '10: 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

September 16 - 17, 2010

Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

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