Toward a dynamic analysis technique to locate framework misuses that cause unexpected side effects

Author

Kume, Izuru ; Nakamura, Mitsutoshi ; Nitta, Naotaka ; Shibayama, Etsuya

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf. Sci., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol. Ikoma, Ikoma, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

June 30 2014-July 2 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Recently many frameworks are used in software development without proper documentation, and are misused by application developers in calling framework APIs. Debugging a failure caused by a wrong API call is difficult and requires a proper supporting technique. In our preceding study we developed a dynamic analysis technique to detect possibly unexpected side effects that cause failures. In this paper, we introduce a case study to identify a wrong API call using this technique.

Keywords

application program interfaces; program debugging; system monitoring; dynamic analysis technique; program debugging; software development; wrong API call; Debugging; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Image edge detection; Java; Runtime; Unified modeling language; Application Frameworks; Debug; Dynamic Analysis; Program Comprehension; Side Effect; Symp-toms;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), 2014 15th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SNPD.2014.6888730

Filename

6888730