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What It Really Takes to Handle Exceptional Conditions
  Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
  Get/download .PDF FileApplication Note [#127]: 2003 |  Adobe .PDF File: about 1.2M.
  Abstract: Handling exceptions, errors, and alternative flows are a critical part of defining good use cases and designing good software. Correct handling of esceptional conditions is not only necessary for correct realization of requirements and for system reliability, but is also an important factor in usability. This paper details a systematic approach to the design of exception handling in object-oriented software.
  Keywords: exceptions, error conditions, objects, object-oriented design, responsibility-driven design
  Reprint of chapter from L. Constantine (ed), forUSE 2002 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Usage-Centered, Task-Centered, and Performance-Centered Design. Rowley, MA: Ampersand Press, 2002. For more details and to order, click here.
  Get/download .PDF FileApplication Note [#127]: 2003 |  Adobe .PDF File: about 1.2M.
  Related Documents: Use Cases and Responsibility [#113], Use Cases to Objects [#123],  Structure and Style [#106]
 

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