Kechagia, M;
Spinellis, D;
(2014)
Undocumented and unchecked: Exceptions that spell trouble.
In:
Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories.
(pp. pp. 312-315).
ACM: New York (NY), USA.
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Abstract
Modern programs rely on large application programming interfaces (APIs). The Android framework comprises 231 core APIs, and is used by countless developers. We examine a sample of 4,900 distinct crash stack traces from 1,800 different Android applications, looking for Android API methods with undocumented exceptions that are part of application crashes. For the purposes of this study, we take as a reference the version 15 of the Android API, which matches our stack traces. Our results show that a significant number of crashes (19%) might have been avoided if these methods had the corresponding exceptions documented as part of their interface.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Undocumented and unchecked: Exceptions that spell trouble |
| Event: | ICSE International Conference on Software Engineering |
| Location: | Hyderabad, India |
| Dates: | 31st May - 1st June 2014 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4503-2863-0 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2597073.2597089 |
| Publisher version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2597073.2597089 |
| 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. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074525 |
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