MEASURING AND QUANTIFYING WEB APPLICATION DESIGN

The World Wide Web makes it easier for organizations and people to share information across great distances at a minimal cost. In addition, governments and businesses are beginning to offer services on the World Wide Web to their respective populations and customers. Unlike traditional desktop based applications where the programming language used are most likely Object Oriented (OO) based languages such as C++ or Java, most web applications are built upon more lightweight scripting languages. These languages typically don’t support all the OO features that more traditional languages support. In addition, some web applications are dependent on external web services or applications. These differences make it difficult to use traditional measuring techniques such as Quality Measurements in Object Oriented Design to quantify the complexity of a web application or its quality. This paper will propose a set of measurements derived from traditional Object Oriented metrics such as QMOOD, and attempt to use them on two Content Management Systems; Drupal and WordPress. These measurements will try to quantify the size and complexity of the two content management systems and make comparisons between them.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Montana

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• McNinch, Craig A

• content management systems
• object oriented design metrics
• quality
• web application design

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/657

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.umt.edu:etd-1676