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Experiences with Error Handling in Critical Systems

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Over the past several years, we have analyzed the error-handling designs of a variety of critical applications and have discovered serious defects even in well-tested and mature systems. In this paper, we will describe specific recurring patterns of error handling defects we have observed in critical systems. It seems clear that the design, implementation, and testing of error handling are often not given adequate attention and resources.

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  1. The MITRE Corporation, 1820 Dolley Madison Boulevard, McLean, Virginia, 22102, USA

    Charles Howell & Gary Vecellio

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1, 7RU, UK

    Alexander Romanovsky

  2. LIRMM Laboratory, University of Montpellier-II, 161 rue Ada, 34392, Montpellier, Cedex 5, France

    Christophe Dony

  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aarhus, Aabogade 34, 8200, Aarhus N, Denmark

    Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen

  4. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Anand Tripathi

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Howell, C., Vecellio, G. (2001). Experiences with Error Handling in Critical Systems. In: Romanovsky, A., Dony, C., Knudsen, J.L., Tripathi, A. (eds) Advances in Exception Handling Techniques. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45407-1_11

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