Exception handling recommendations for the right usage of APIs in client apps.
- Data:
The used approach is data-driven and has been applied on three data sets:
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ten versions of the Android API (14-23). See [1] and [2].
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3,539 Android apps from [3].
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almost 1 million stack traces from [4].
References:
[1] https://github.com/Sable/android-platforms (Android references up to version 17).
[2] https://developer.android.com/reference/classes.html (Folder android-platforms-new in the repo contains Android references from version 18 to version 23.)
[3] N. Viennot, E. Garcia, J. Nieh, A measurement study of Google Play, in: The 2014 ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS ’14, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2014, pp. 221–233. doi:10.1145/2591971.2592003. (Note: https://archive.org/details/android_apps).
[4] Maria Kechagia, Dimitris Mitropoulos, and Diomidis Spinellis. 2015. Charting the API minefield using software telemetry data. Empirical Softw. Engg. 20, 6 (December 2015), 1785-1830. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10664-014-9343-7.
- Dependencies:
For the analysis of the Android API and apps, we have used the Soot framework [3] and its Dexpler module [4].
[3] https://sable.github.io/soot/
[4] https://www.abartel.net/dexpler/
- License:
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This repo includes material for the following work. Please cite as in the following:
Maria Kechagia, Marios Fragkoulis, Panos Louridas, Diomidis Spinellis. The Exception Handling Riddle: An Empirical Study on the Android API. Journal of Systems and Software. 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2018.04.034. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121218300724.