Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study

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Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study. / Coelho, Roberta; Rashid, Awais; Garcia, Alessandro et al.
Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008). Berlin: Springer, 2008. p. 207-234 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5142).

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Coelho, R, Rashid, A, Garcia, A, Ferrari, F, Cacho, N, Kulesza, U, von Staa, A & Lucena, C 2008, Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study. in Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5142, Springer, Berlin, pp. 207-234, ECOOP 2008 - Object-Oriented Programming, 22nd European Conference, Paphos, Cyprus, 7/07/08. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70592-5_10

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Coelho, R., Rashid, A., Garcia, A., Ferrari, F., Cacho, N., Kulesza, U., von Staa, A., & Lucena, C. (2008). Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008) (pp. 207-234). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 5142). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70592-5_10

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Coelho R, Rashid A, Garcia A, Ferrari F, Cacho N, Kulesza U et al. Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study. In Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008). Berlin: Springer. 2008. p. 207-234. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-70592-5_10

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Coelho, Roberta ; Rashid, Awais ; Garcia, Alessandro et al. / Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study. Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008). Berlin : Springer, 2008. pp. 207-234 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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title = "Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study",

abstract = "Exception handling mechanisms are intended to support the development of robust software. However, the implementation of such mechanisms with aspect-oriented (AO) programming might lead to error-prone scenarios. As aspects extend or replace existing functionality at specific join points in the code execution, aspects{\textquoteright} behavior may bring new exceptions, which can flow through the program execution in unexpected ways. This paper presents a systematic study that assesses the error proneness of AOP mechanisms on exception flows of evolving programs. The analysis was based on the object-oriented and the aspect-oriented versions of three medium-sized systems from different application domains. Our findings show that exception handling code in AO systems is error-prone, since all versions analyzed presented an increase in the number of uncaught exceptions and exceptions caught by the wrong handler. The causes of such problems are characterized and presented as a catalogue of bug patterns.",

keywords = "Exception handling , aspect-oriented programs , static analysis, empirical study, uncaught exceptions , obsolete handler , unintended handler",

author = "Roberta Coelho and Awais Rashid and Alessandro Garcia and Fabiano Ferrari and Nelio Cacho and Uir{\'a} Kulesza and {von Staa}, Arndt and Carlos Lucena",

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