Detecting Missing Method Calls in Object-Oriented Software

by Martin Monperrus, Marcel Bruch and Mira Mezini

Abstract: When using object-oriented frameworks it is easy to overlook certain important method calls that are required at particular places in code. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive set of empirical facts on this problem, starting from traces of missing method calls in a bug repository. We propose a new system, which automatically detects them during both software development and quality assurance phases. The evaluation shows that it has a low false positive rate (<5%) and that it is able to find missing method calls in the source code of the Eclipse IDE.

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Martin Monperrus, Marcel Bruch and Mira Mezini, "Detecting Missing Method Calls in Object-Oriented Software", In Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, pp. 2-25, 2010.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14107-2_2

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@inproceedings{monperrus:hal-01575351,
 title = {Detecting Missing Method Calls in Object-Oriented Software},
 author = {Monperrus, Martin and Bruch, Marcel and Mezini, Mira},
 url = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01575351/file/Detecting-Missing-Method-Calls-in-Object-Oriented-Software.pdf},
 booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming}},
 pages = {2-25},
 year = {2010},
 doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-14107-2_2},
}