GraphQL is a novel query language proposed by Facebook to implement Web-based APIs.
In this paper, we present a practical study on migrating API clients to this new technology …

Background Research on empirical software engineering has increasingly been conducted
by analysing and measuring vast amounts of software systems. Hundreds, thousands and …

Exception handling is widely used in software development to guarantee code robustness
and system reliability. Developers are expected to choose appropriate handling strategies to …

Modern programming languages, such as Java and C#, typically provide features that
handle exceptions. These features separate error-handling code from regular source code …

Software testing is a crucial activity to check the internal quality of a software. During testing,
developers often create tests for the normal behavior of a particular functionality (eg, was …

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

Crowdsensing in the case of health-related information can enable a new mode of health
data collection, able to collect more detailed and real-world health and physiological data …

Exception handling is an effective mechanism to guarantee software reliability in modern
programming languages. An exception interrupts the program execution and propagates …

Android is an operating system widely deployed especially on devices such as
smartphones. In this paper, we study the evolution of OpenJDK Java Class Library (JCL) …

Exception handling is a well-known technique used to improve software robustness.
However, recent studies report that developers typically neglect exception handling (mostly …