Ripple effect in web applications

The number of internet web applications is rapidly increasing in a variety of fields and not much work has been done for ensuring their quality, especially after modification. Modifying any part of a web application may affect other parts. If the stability of a web application is poor, then the impa...

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Main Author: Mansour, Nashat (author)
Other Authors: Baba, Nabil (author)
Format: article
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/7856
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://www.igi-global.com/article/ripple-effect-web-applications/44919
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Summary:The number of internet web applications is rapidly increasing in a variety of fields and not much work has been done for ensuring their quality, especially after modification. Modifying any part of a web application may affect other parts. If the stability of a web application is poor, then the impact of modification will be costly in terms of maintenance and testing. Ripple effect is a measure of the structural stability of source code upon changing a part of the code, which provides an assessment of how much a local modification in the web application may affect other parts. Limited work has been published on computing the ripple effect for web application. In this paper, the authors propose, a technique for computing ripple effect in web applications. This technique is based on direct-change impact analysis and dependence analysis for web applications developed in the .Net environment. Also, a complexity metric is proposed to be included in computing the ripple effect in web applications.