How Does Exception Handling Behavior Evolve? An Exploratory Study in Java and C# Applications

@article{Cacho2014HowDE,
  title={How Does Exception Handling Behavior Evolve? An Exploratory Study in Java and C\# Applications},
  author={Nelio Alessandro Azevedo Cacho and Eiji Adachi Barbosa and Juliana Araujo and Frederico Pranto and Alessandro F. Garcia and Thiago C{\'e}sar and Eliezio Soares and Arthur Cassio and Thomas Filipe and Israel Garc{\'i}a},
  journal={2014 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution},
  year={2014},
  pages={31-40}
}
  • N. Cacho, E. Barbosa, Israel García
  • Published 29 September 2014
  • Computer Science
  • 2014 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution
Exception handling mechanisms (EHM) were conceived as a means to improve maintainability and reliability of programs that have to deal with exceptional situations. Amongst the different implementations of built-in EHM, we classify them in two main categories: reliability-driven and maintenance-driven. Some programming languages, such as Java, provide built-in exception handling mechanisms that promote reliability-driven EHMs. Maintenance-driven EHMs, on the other hand, promote software… 
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