Assessing Intra-application Exception Handling Reuse with Aspects

Measurement of exception-handling code: An exploratory study

“…These have been studied in more general exception-handling contexts [1], in theoretical frameworks [2] and in the context of Aspect Oriented Programming [3].…”

Systems Evolution and Software Reuse in Object-Oriented Programming and Aspect-Oriented Programming

“…Taveira et al conducted two studies to check if AOP promotes greater reuse of exception handling code than a traditional, OO approach. In the first study [38], they assessed the suitability of AOP to reuse exception handling code within applications. They refactored three medium-size applications implemented originally in Java.…”

“…The number of handlers was sensibly lower in the refactored versions but the amount of error handling code was much higher. In the second study [37], they refactored seven medium-size systems to assess the extent to which AOP promotes inter-application reuse of exception handling code. They found out that reusing error handling across applications is not possible in most of the cases and requires some a priori planning.…”

The AOSD Research Community in Brazil and Its Crosscutting Impact

“…Later on, Castor Filho et al [8] elaborated a catalog of best and worst practices related to the aspectization of EH. Taveira et al [9] continued the investigation and found out that a considerable amount of error handling code could be reused inside a single application by using aspects. Nonetheless, the programming overhead associated to it, somewhat, overshadows that reuse.…”