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Finding Participant encountered null pointer exception because he didn't initialize ArrayList field. His code called a method on such uninitialized field. Severity Participant had to run the application in order to get to this error which could be an unnecessary step. Recommendation Warn the user about unitialized variables in the source code.
moving opened issues from TM <= 6.1 to TM=Dev