Design metrics for web application maintainability measurement

  • Authors:

  • Emad Ghosheh;Sue Black;Jihad Qaddour

  • Affiliations:

  • AT& T, One Bell Center, Saint Louis, MO, USA;University of Westminster, Department of Information and Software Systems, Harrow School of Computer Science, London HA1 3TP, UK;Illinois State University, School of Information Technology, Normal, 61790-5150, USA

  • Venue:
  • AICCSA '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Many web applications have evolved from simple HTML pages to complex applications that have a high maintenance cost. This high maintenance cost is due to the heterogeneity of web applications, to fast Internet evolution and the fast-moving market which imposes short development cycles and frequent modifications. In order to control the maintenance cost, quantitative metrics for predicting web applications maintainability must be used. This paper provides an exploratory study for new design metrics used for measuring the maintainability of web applications from class diagrams. The metrics are based on Web Application Extension (WAE) for UML and will measure the following design attributes: size, complexity, coupling and reusability. In this study the metrics are applied to two web applications from the telecommunications domain.