TY - GEN
T1 - Recommending improvements to web applications using quality-driven heuristic search
AU - Vaucher, Stephane
AU - Boclinville, Samuel
AU - Sahraoui, Houari
AU - Habra, Naji
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Planning out maintenance tasks to increase the quality of Web applications can be difficult for a manager. First, it is hard to evaluate the precise effect of a task on quality. Second, quality improvement will generally be the result of applying a combination of available tasks; identifying the best combination can be complicated. We present a general approach to recommend improvements to Web applications. The approach uses a meta-heuristic algorithm to find the best sequence of changes given a quality model responsible to evaluate the fitness of candidate sequences. This approach was tested using a navigability model on 15 different Web pages. The meta-heuristic recommended the best possible sequence for every tested configuration, while being much more efficient than an exhaustive search with respect to execution time.
AB - Planning out maintenance tasks to increase the quality of Web applications can be difficult for a manager. First, it is hard to evaluate the precise effect of a task on quality. Second, quality improvement will generally be the result of applying a combination of available tasks; identifying the best combination can be complicated. We present a general approach to recommend improvements to Web applications. The approach uses a meta-heuristic algorithm to find the best sequence of changes given a quality model responsible to evaluate the fitness of candidate sequences. This approach was tested using a navigability model on 15 different Web pages. The meta-heuristic recommended the best possible sequence for every tested configuration, while being much more efficient than an exhaustive search with respect to execution time.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=71549119524&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_33
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-04409-0_33
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 3642044085
SN - 9783642044083
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 321
EP - 334
BT - Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2009
T2 - 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2009
Y2 - 5 October 2009 through 7 October 2009
ER -