Improving software quality: the use of formal inspections at the JPL
ICSE '90 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Software engineering
Exceptional C or C with exceptions
Software—Practice & Experience
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
A study on exception detection and handling using aspect-oriented programming
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
A static analyzer for finding dynamic programming errors
Software—Practice & Experience
The SLAM project: debugging system software via static analysis
POPL '02 Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
ESP: path-sensitive program verification in polynomial time
PLDI '02 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
Extended static checking for Java
PLDI '02 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2002 Conference on Programming language design and implementation
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
MOPS: an infrastructure for examining security properties of software
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
A Framework for Source Code Search Using Program Patterns
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Criteria for Testing Exception-Handling Constructs in Java Programs
ICSM '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Identifying Refactoring Opportunities Using Logic Meta Programming
CSMR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
Java Quality Assurance by Detecting Code Smells
WCRE '02 Proceedings of the Ninth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE'02)
Regaining Control of Exception Handling
Regaining Control of Exception Handling
Static analysis to support the evolution of exception structure in object-oriented systems
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
An Evaluation of Clone Detection Techniques for Identifying Crosscutting Concerns
ICSM '04 Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
CMC: a pragmatic approach to model checking real code
OSDI '02 Proceedings of the 5th symposium on Operating systems design and implementationCopyright restrictions prevent ACM from being able to make the PDFs for this conference available for downloading
Dependability assessment of software-based systems: state of the art
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Robustness Testing of Java Server Applications
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Isolating Idiomatic Crosscutting Concerns
ICSM '05 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Checking system rules using system-specific, programmer-written compiler extensions
OSDI'00 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Symposium on Operating System Design & Implementation - Volume 4
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
Proceedings of the 5th workshop on Software engineering properties of languages and aspect technologies
A looming fault tolerance software crisis?
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Exceptional situations and program reliability
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Automatic documentation inference for exceptions
ISSTA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study
ECOOP '08 Proceedings of the 22nd European conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Journal of Systems and Software
Mining API Error-Handling Specifications from Source Code
FASE '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009
A Localized Software-based approach for Fault-Tolerant Ethernet (LSFTE)
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
Detecting missing thrown exceptions in enterprise systems: an empirical study
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
An approach to improving the structure of error-handling code in the linux kernel
Proceedings of the 2011 SIGPLAN/SIGBED conference on Languages, compilers and tools for embedded systems
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Are the classes that use exceptions defect prone?
Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution
Characterizing logging practices in open-source software
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
A source-to-source transformation tool for error fixing
CASCON '13 Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research
GUI testing assisted by human knowledge: Random vs. functional
Journal of Systems and Software
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In this paper, we analyse the exception handling mechanism of a state-of-the-art industrial embedded software system. Like many systems implemented in classic programming languages, our subject system uses the popular return-code idiom for dealing with exceptions. Our goal is to evaluate the fault-proneness of this idiom, and we therefore present a characterisation of the idiom, a fault model accompanied by an analysis tool, and empirical data. Our findings show that the idiom is indeed fault prone, but that a simple solution can lead to significant improvements.