Error Handling and Exception Management
Mark Pearce · Apress eBooks · 2003
Bad error handling and exception management can rapidly undermine user confidence in your software product or application, and even in your company. The average end user is becoming increasingly sophisticated in her expectations of your software. She knows that properly coded software doesn’t crash and burn, lose her work, or leave her stranded facing an error message bleating feebly about “Action aborted due to file specification error.” She wants a stable and polite application that doesn’t blame her for every nervous breakdown suffered by the software. Most of all, she wants error handling that supplies her with the right type of information to help her complete whatever task she’s trying to accomplish.