Background Assessing and communicating software engineering research can be
challenging. Design science is recognized as an appropriate research paradigm for applied …

Logging is a common programming practice of practical importance to collect system
runtime information for postmortem analysis. Strategic logging placement is desired to cover …

Statistics comes in two main flavors: frequentist and Bayesian. For historical and technical
reasons, frequentist statistics have traditionally dominated empirical data analysis, and …

Running compute-intensive or blocking I/O operations in the UI event thread of smartphone
apps can severely degrade responsiveness. Despite the fact that Android supports writing …

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 …

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 …

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

Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Global-aware
recommendations for repairing violations Page 1 Global-Aware Recommendations for Repairing …

Exception handling mechanisms (EHM) were conceived as a means to improve
maintainability and reliability of programs that have to deal with exceptional situations …

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