The evolution of Websites

Author

Warren, Paul ; Boldyreff, Cornelia ; Munro, Malcolm

Author_Institution

Centre for Software Maintenance, Durham Univ., UK

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

178

Lastpage

185

Abstract

One major attraction of the World-Wide Web is the ease with which a relatively untrained user can create or modify a Web hypertext document. However, this same flexibility often causes problems of low quality similar to those encountered in software developed by programmers before the advent of software engineering. Evolution of software has been the subject of much recent research. It is now well understood that a large proportion of software costs arise during the maintenance phase. This research aims to characterise the evolution of Web sites in terms of new metrics and models. The research draws on the work on: (1) software evolution, and (2) the analysis of hypertext and software by use of metrics and other means. The work is being evaluated by means of case studies

Keywords

document handling; hypermedia; information resources; software metrics; Web hypertext document; Web site evolution; World-Wide Web; case studies; hypertext; maintenance phase; software costs; software evolution; untrained user; Costs; Graphics; HTML; IP networks; Programming profession; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software quality; Web pages; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 1999. Proceedings. Seventh International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0180-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.1999.777757

Filename

777757