• DocumentCode
    2435888
  • Title

    Measurement of exception-handling code: An exploratory study

  • Author

    Dúlaigh, Keith Ó ; Power, James F. ; Clarke, Peter J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-9 June 2012
  • Firstpage
    55
  • Lastpage
    61
  • Abstract
    This paper presents some preliminary results from an empirical study of 12 Java applications from the Qualitas corpus. We measure the quantity and distribution of exception-handling constructs, and study their change as the systems evolve through several versions.
  • Keywords
    Java; exception handling; software metrics; Java application; Qualitas corpus; empirical software engineering; exception-handling code; exception-handling constructs; software metrics; Context; Educational institutions; Java; Libraries; Size measurement; Visualization; empirical software engineering; exception handling code; software metrics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Exception Handling (WEH), 2012 5th International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Zurich
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1767-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WEH.2012.6226602
  • Filename
    6226602