Are the classes that use exceptions defect prone?

Authors:
Cristina Marinescu
Affiliations:
Politehnica University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
Venue:
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Exception handling is a mechanism that highlights exceptional functionality of software systems. Currently many empirical studies point out that sometimes developers neglect exceptional functionality, minimizing its importance. In this paper we investigate if the design entities (classes) that use exceptions are more defect prone than the other classes. The results, based on analyzing three releases of Eclipse, show that indeed the classes that use exceptions are more defect prone than the other classes. Based on our results, developers are advertised to pay more attention to the way they handle exceptions.