Paper Info
Title
Undocumented and unchecked: exceptions that spell trouble
Abstract
Modern programs rely on large application programming interfaces (APIs). The Android framework comprises 231 core APIs, and is used by countless developers. We examine a sample of 4,900 distinct crash stack traces from 1,800 different Android applications, looking for Android API methods with undocumented exceptions that are part of application crashes. For the purposes of this study, we take as a reference the version 15 of the Android API, which matches our stack traces. Our results show that a significant number of crashes (19%) might have been avoided if these methods had the corresponding exceptions documented as part of their interface.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2597073.2597089
MSR
Keywords
Field
DocType
design tools and techniques,design,exceptions,documentation,apis,stack traces,software/program verification,mobile applications
Crash,Android (operating system),Programming language,Computer science,Application programming interface,Spell
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
1.04
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Kechagia1748.36
Diomidis Spinellis22023178.89