08 February 2007

Software Engineering: Exception Handling (Definitions)

"The way a program responds to an error. The exception-handling mechanism in Perl is the eval operator." (Jon Orwant et al, "Programming Perl" 4th Ed., 2012)

"Behavior of a component or system in response to wrong input, from either a human user or another component or system, or due to an internal failure." (Tilo Linz et al, "Software Testing Foundations" 4th Ed., 2014)

"The performance of a specified response to an abnormal condition. Exception handling allows control and information to be passed to an exception handler when an exception occurs." (IBM, "Informix Servers 12.1", 2014)

"Behavior of a component or system in response to erroneous input, from either a human user or from another component or system, or to an internal failure." (IQBBA)


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