Using FMEA for early robustness analysis of Web-based systems

Time pressure and quality issues are two main challenges facing today´s Web development professionals. To achieve quick development of high-quality systems, a lot of methods and techniques have been proposed. A widely recognized strategy in current practice is to emphasize early quality assurance techniques, as the late detection of defects are well known to be expensive and time-consuming. We take robustness as a critically important quality attribute, and propose a general framework for conducting early robustness analysis for Web-based systems, based on Jacobson´s analysis method and FMEA (failure mode and effect analysis).