A practical method for specification and analysis of exception handling-a java/jvm case study

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 872-887

  Borger, Egon ^a   Schulte, Wolfram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract state machines; Compiler; Correctness; Exception handling; Java; Java virtual machine; Semantics

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA HANDLING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM COMPILERS; SPECIFICATIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

ABSTRACT STATE MACHINES; EXCEPTION HANDLING; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034273863     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.877847     Document Type: Article

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