Reverse engineering to achieve maintainable WWW sites

The growth of the World Wide Web and the accelerated development of web sites and associated web technologies has resulted in a variety of maintenance problems. The maintenance problems associated with web sites and the WWW are examined. It is argued that currently web sites and the WWW lack both da...

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Published inProceedings Eighth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering pp. 249 - 257
Main Authors Boldyreff, C., Kewish, R.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2001
Subjects
Acceleration
Application software
Computer science
Design engineering
Large-scale systems
Reverse engineering
Software engineering
Software maintenance
Web sites
World Wide Web
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ISBN0769513034
9780769513034
ISSN1095-1350
DOI10.1109/WCRE.2001.957829

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Summary:The growth of the World Wide Web and the accelerated development of web sites and associated web technologies has resulted in a variety of maintenance problems. The maintenance problems associated with web sites and the WWW are examined. It is argued that currently web sites and the WWW lack both data abstractions and structures that could facilitate maintenance. A system to analyse existing web sites and extract duplicated content and style is described here. In designing the system, existing reverse engineering techniques have been applied, and a case for further application of these techniques is made in order to prepare sites for their inevitable evolution in future.
ISBN:0769513034
9780769513034
ISSN:1095-1350
DOI:10.1109/WCRE.2001.957829