Why do developers neglect exception handling?

WEH '08 - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Exception Handling, Co-located with the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 62-68

  Shah, Hina ^a   Görg, Carsten ^a   Harrold, Mary Jean ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Exception handling; Human aspects; Interactive visualization; User studies

Indexed keywords

CORE FUNCTIONALITY; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EXCEPTION HANDLING; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; HUMAN ASPECTS; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; NEW DIMENSIONS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; USER STUDY; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 70349727813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1454268.1454277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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