Quality Attributes of Web Software Applications

In only four or five years, the world wide web has changed from a static collection of HTML web pages to a dynamic engine that powers e-commerce, collaborative work, and distribution of information and entertainment. These exciting changes have been fueled by many changes in software technology, the software development process, and how software is deployed. Although the word "heterogeneous" is commonly used to describe web software, we might easily forget to notice in how many ways it can be applied. In fact, the synonymous term "diverse" is more general and familiar, and may be more appropriate. Web software applications use diverse types of hardware, they include a diverse collection of types of implementation languages (including traditional programs, HTML, interpreted scripts, and databases), they are composed of software written in diverse languages, and they are built by collections of people with very diverse sets of skills. Although these changes in how we...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: SOFTWARE
• Authors: A. Jefferson Offutt
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Software, SOFTWARE 2002, Web Software, Web Software Applications