Assessing the impact of aspects on exception flows: An exploratory study

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5142 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 207-234

  Coelho, Roberta ^a,b   Rashid, Awais ^b   Garcia, Alessandro ^b   Ferrari, Fabiano ^b   Cacho, Nélio ^b   Kulesza, Uirá ^c,d   Von Staa, Arndt ^a   Lucena, Carlos ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d CESAR Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspect oriented programs; Empirical study; Exception handling; Obsolete handler; Static analysis; Uncaught exceptions; Unintended handler

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; MECHANISMS;

AO SYSTEMS; APPLICATION DOMAINS; ASPECT-ORIENTED; ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMS; ASPECT-ORIENTED VERSIONS; CODE EXECUTION; EMPIRICAL STUDY; ERROR PRONENESS; ERROR-PRONE; EUROPEAN; EXCEPTION HANDLING; EXCEPTION HANDLING MECHANISMS; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; FLOW-THROUGH; OBJECT-ORIENTED; OBSOLETE HANDLER; PROGRAM EXECUTIONS; ROBUST SOFTWARE; SIZED SYSTEMS; STATIC ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; UNCAUGHT EXCEPTIONS; UNINTENDED HANDLER;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 49049118058     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70592-5_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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