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Ripple Effect in Web Applications

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  • Nashat Mansour

    (Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon)

  • Nabil Baba

    (Lebanese American University, Lebanon)

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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.

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  • Nashat Mansour & Nabil Baba, 2010. "Ripple Effect in Web Applications," International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), IGI Global, vol. 5(2), pages 1-15, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:igg:jitwe0:v:5:y:2010:i:2:p:1-15
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