SI Seminar by Diego Venâncio Marcílio
Istituto del software
Data: 12 Maggio 2022 / 16:30 - 17:30
Towards Untangling Java Exceptions
Speaker: Diego Venâncio Marcílio
Abstract:
Exceptions are events that disrupt the normal flow of a program. If not correctly handled, they can cause bugs that are often tricky to detect and debug. In Java, exception handling practices can be a controversial topic, and the state of practice is all over the place. Disagreements range from the kind of exceptions (i.e., checked and unchecked) to specific exception types (e.g., NullPointerException, IllegalArgumentException). Moreover, while best practices dictate that exceptions should be documented, they are oftentimes not. This talk will summarize our current and future work towards untangling (some) of the Java exceptions mess. Our recent results include adding to and improving the documentation of popular Apache projects with fully automatically extracted preconditions.
Biography:
Diego Marcilio is a Ph.D. student in the Software institute at USI Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. He received his M.S. in Informatics from the University of Brasília, Brazil, in 2019. His research interests center around aiding developers when understanding, writing, evolving, and maintaining source code. To know more, please check https://dvmarcilio.github.io/.
Chair: Csaba Nagy
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