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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Exception Handling (WEH), 2012 5th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1767-2
DOI :
10.1109/WEH.2012.6226602
