Paper Info
Title
Improvement of applications' stability through robust APIs
Abstract
Modern programs require useful and robust APIs to guarantee applications' responsiveness. Given that large APIs can be used by novice developers and that not all experts are infallible, a well-designed API should inform developers about all the possible exceptions that an application can throw when it calls specific API methods. This research aims to identify automatically which exceptions should be included in an API reference. For this, there will be an evaluation of the Android API with an emphasis on its Java error-handling mechanism. First goal will be the automatic identification of as many as possible critical exceptions that each API method of the system can throw.Second goal will be the recommendation of undocumented exceptions that can lead client applications to execution failures (crashes). Consequently, the contribution of this research would be the decrease of possible application crashes that are associated with undocumented exceptions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2642937.2653473
ASE
Keywords
Field
DocType
exceptions,documentation,stack traces,reusable software,application programming interfaces
Android (operating system),Programming language,Software engineering,Computer science,Application programming interface,Documentation,Java
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
11
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Kechagia1748.36