Name
Abstract | ||
|---|---|---|
Null pointer exceptions, also known as null dereferences are the number one exceptions in the field. In this paper, we propose 9 alternative execution semantics when a null pointer exception is about to happen. We implement those alternative execution strategies using code transformation in a tool called NPEfix. We evaluate our prototype implementation on 11 field null dereference bugs and 519 seeded failures and show that NPEfix is able to repair at runtime 10/11 and 318/519 failures. |
Year | Venue | DocType |
|---|---|---|
2015 | arXiv: Software Engineering | Journal |
Volume | Citations | PageRank |
abs/1512.07423 | 6 | 0.43 |
References | Authors | |
11 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benoit Cornu | 1 | 33 | 3.54 |
| thomas durieux | 2 | 24 | 1.28 |
| Lionel Seinturier | 3 | 1041 | 79.30 |
| Martin Monperrus | 4 | 1330 | 70.54 |