As an example, there are only 16 categorical manifestations of software exceptions based on the following categories: - Synchronicity, Scope, Origin For Synch

As an example, there are only 16 categorical manifestations of software exceptions based on the following categories: - Synchronicity, Scope, Origin For Synchronicity we have: - Synchronicity - Asynchronicity For Scope we have: - Process-specific - Cross-process For Origin we have: - Data origin - Temporal origin - External origin - Process origin Then you combine them such as "Synchronous-CrossProcess-Temporal Origin." The total is 16 ways. Even if something were somehow to be missing from this categorization scheme, it would only add a finite amount of possibilities to the permutations. Yet this taxonomy seems quite complete as is. See: “Error Handling in Process Support Systems” by Casati & Cugola.