A widely shared belief in the software engineering community is that stack traces are much
sought after by developers to support them in debugging. But limited empirical evidence is …

Error handling code is often critical but difficult to test in reality. As a result, many hard-to-find
bugs exist in error handling code and may cause serious security problems once triggered …

Context: Exception handling has become popular in most major programming languages,
including Ada, C++, Java, and ML. Since exception handling was introduced in …

Many software systems support automatic collection of field crash-reports which record the
stack traces and other runtime information when crashes occur. Analysis of field crash …

Exception handling is an important built-in feature of many modern programming languages
such as Java. It allows developers to deal with abnormal or unexpected conditions that may …

Exception handling is a powerful tool provided by many programming languages to help
developers deal with unforeseen conditions. Java is one of the few programming languages …

Modern programming languages (eg, Java and C#) provide features to separate error-
handling code from regular code, seeking to enhance software comprehensibility and …

Despite being an old language feature, Java exception handling code is one of the least
understood parts of many systems. Several studies have analyzed the characteristics of …

Swift is a new programming language developed by Apple as a replacement to Objective-C.
It features a sophisticated error handling (EH) mechanism that provides the kind of …

Bug fixing is a crucial task in software maintenance to hold user trust. Although various
automated fault localization techniques exist, they often require specific conditions to be …