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Type Checking for Reliable APIs

Kechagia, M; Spinellis, D; (2017) Type Checking for Reliable APIs. In: (Proceedings) 1st IEEE/ACM International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution (WAPI). (pp. pp. 15-18). IEEE: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Green open access

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose to configure at compiletime the checking associated with Application ProgrammingInterfaces' methods that can receive possibly malformed values (e.g. erroneous user inputs and problematic retrieved recordsfrom databases) and thus cause application execution failures. To achieve this, we design a type system for implementing apluggable checker on the Java's compiler and find at compile timeinsufficient checking bugs that can lead to application crashesdue to malformed inputs. Our goal is to wrap methods whenthey receive external inputs so that the former generate checkedinstead of unchecked exceptions. We believe that our approachcan improve Java developers' productivity, by using exceptionhandling only when it is required, and ensure client applications'stability. We want to evaluate our checker by using it to verifythe source code of Java projects from the Apache ecosystem. Also, we want to analyze stack traces to validate the identifiedfailures by our checker.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Type Checking for Reliable APIs
Event: 1st IEEE/ACM International Workshop on API Usage and Evolution (WAPI)
Location: Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Dates: 23 May 2017
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1109/WAPI.2017.5
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1109/WAPI.2017.5
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science, application programming interfaces, exceptions, type systems
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074521
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