Multi-faceted quality and defect measurement for web software and source contents

  • Authors:
  • Zhao Li;Nasser Alaeddine;Jeff Tian

  • Affiliations:
  • Southern Methodist University, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Dallas, Texas 75275, USA;Southern Methodist University, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Dallas, Texas 75275, USA;Southern Methodist University, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Dallas, Texas 75275, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we examine external failures and internal faults traceable to web software and source contents. We develop related defect and quality measurements based on different perspectives of customers, users, information or service hosts, maintainers, developers, integrators, and managers. These measurements can help web information and service providers with their quality assessment and improvement activities to meet the quality expectations of their customers and users. The different usages of our measurement framework by different stakeholders of web sites and web applications are also outlined and discussed. The data sources include existing web server logs and statistics reports, defect repositories from web application development and maintenance activities, and source files. We applied our approach to four diverse websites: one educational website, one open source software project website, one online catalog showroom for a small company, and one e-Commerce website for a large company. The results demonstrated the viability and effectiveness of our approach.