Intense competition in the mobile apps market means it is important to maintain high levels
of app reliability to avoid losing users. Yet despite its importance, app reliability is …

Exception handling is an effective mechanism to avoid unexpected runtime errors. However,
novice programmers might fail to handle exceptions properly, causing serious errors like …

Social media sensing has emerged as a new big data application paradigm to collect
observations and claims about the measured variables in physical environment from …

All the mainstream programming languages in widespread use for mobile app development
provide error handling mechanisms to support the implementation of robust apps. Android …

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) typically come with (implicit) usage constraints.
The violations of these constraints (API misuses) can lead to software crashes. Even though …

Modern programming languages, such as Java, use exception-handling mechanisms to
guarantee the robustness of software systems. Although important, the quality of exception …

We examine the use of the Java exception types in the Android platform's Application
Programming Interface (API) reference documentation and their impact on the stability of …

Error-handling is an important means to improve the robustness of a system and testing
error-handling is crucial to ensure its correctness. In this paper, we argue that error-handling …

Exception handling (EH) is a feature common to many modern programming languages,
including C++, Java, and Python, that allows error handling in client code to be performed in …

Software encounters ungraceful exits due to either bugs in the interrupt/signal handler code
or the intention of developers to debug the software. Users may suffer from” weird” problems …