EH-Recommender: Recommending Exception Handling Strategies Based on Program Context

Li, Yu-Hang; Song, Ying; Jia, Xiangyang; Xu, Yisen; Zhao, Lily; Cheng, Guoli; Wang, Bingming; Xuan, Jifeng

doi:10.1109/iceccs2018.2018.00019

Cited by 13 publications

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“…Li et al [21] devised a method that automatically recommends exception handling strategies, based on program context. To the best of our knowledge, FuzzyCatch is the first code recommendation tool available that actually recommends and generates exception catching and handling code as a plugin of IDEs.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Code recommendation for exception handling

Nguyen

2020

Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Softw

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Exception handling is an effective mechanism to avoid unexpected runtime errors. However, novice programmers might fail to handle exceptions properly, causing serious errors like system crashing or resource leaking. In this paper, we introduce FuzzyCatch, a code recommendation tool for handling exceptions. Based on fuzzy logic, FuzzyCatch can predict if a runtime exception would occur in a given code snippet and recommend code to handle that exception. FuzzyCatch is implemented as a plugin for Android Studio. The empirical evaluation suggests that FuzzyCatch is highly effective. For example, it has top-1 accuracy of 77% on recommending what exception to catch in a try catch block and of 70% on recommending what method should be called when such an exception occurs. FuzzyCatch also achieves a high level of accuracy and outperforms baselines significantly on detecting and fixing real exception bugs. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Development frameworks and environments; Software libraries and repositories; Software maintenance tools.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Code recommendation for exception handling

Nguyen

2020

Proceedings of the 28th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Softw

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“…Our categorization of exception handling bugs and their causes has been (partially) used in five different studies [20], [15], [26], [33], [18] The survey we conducted in our article also served as a basis for surveys by de Sousa [13], [34]. Finally, we found 15 papers addressing the five themes for future work that our paper discussed [23], [25], [26], [27], [35], [17], [36], [33], [29], [37], [30], [31], [32], [13], [38].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This tool also recommends code to fix the occurrence of such exception, in case it stems from a bug. In a similar vein, Li et al [36] devised a method that automatically recommends exception handling strategies, based on program context.…”

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confidence: 99%