List of Exception Management Anti-Patterns and Code Smells
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GoogleCodeExporter commented
Code smells are defined as symptoms in the program source code which are
usually not bugs or technically incorrect but indicates a possible deeper
problem. Anti-patterns are counterparts of design patterns and are defined as
mistakes during software development that produces negative consequences and is
ineffective or counter-productive. During program execution, error events can
occur that disrupts the normal flow of the program. Programming languages
provide exception handling mechanism to developers for handling errors and
exception events.
I mined the source-code (H2-2014-01-18) for automatically detecting 10
exception handling anti-patterns
(https://today.java.net/article/2006/04/04/exception-handling-antipatterns).
In this issue report, I list the exception handling anti-patterns and
code-smells that I found in the source code. My experimental results
demonstrate presence of various exception handling anti-patterns and throw
light on their intensity. I believe my tool for automatic detection of
anti-patterns in source code and the attached results can be useful to
programmers by helping them correct mistakes and write effective code.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by ash...@iiitd.ac.in
on 29 Jun 2014 at 12:03
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GoogleCodeExporter commented
I understand some people may view this as an "anti-pattern", however I don't,
for the cases you listed.
Exceptions are for example caught in order to log them, and then re-thrown. I
don't see anything wrong with that. If you don't agree, please explain why.
Original comment by thomas.t...@gmail.com
on 30 Jun 2014 at 4:04
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