Web site evolution

  • Authors:
  • Cornelia Boldyreff;Paolo Tonella

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Durham, Durham, U.K.;ITC-irst, Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Povo (Trento), Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice - Special issue: Web site evolution
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Web sites are becoming increasingly important for companies and organizations. Crucial information as well as economic transactions are managed by Web sites, so that their reliability, usability and overall quality are central issues, The advent of new technologies, such as Web services, makes the domain of Web applications a very dynamic one, where the evolution is rapid and unavoidable. Moreover, existing systems are also eligible for migration to the Web, thus requiring specific reengineering processes and methods.This special issue is focused on the recent achievements produced by software engineering research that has been conducted on Web sites. Reverse engineering, restructuring, testing and dynamic analysis are well-established disciplines that have been investigated in the new domain of the Web. Moreover, migration of legacy code to the Web poses technical problems related to domain analysis, adoption challenges and performance assessment. This issue provides an overview of the most promising results achieved in these fields