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Abstract | ||
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In the field of software engineering it is generally recognised that the reuse of existing components can lead to greater productivity and cost-effectiveness, together with a more reliable and easier to maintain software product of high quality. In short, software reusability is an essential attribute of a high, quality, reliable software component. However, most Web pages are currently constructed for a particular system or Web-site rather than being built with reuse in mind. Any reuse of these pages is based on ad hoc reuse rather than systematic reuse. This article presents a new approach for Web-page reuse called a dynamic referential navigational guide (DReNG). Based on the page-component instead of the predetermined link concept, a more structured design is proposed. Generic Web pages are built as reusable components and viewed as black boxes. A master page is used for each system developed, as a reference guide, to store the navigational links and the navigational mechanisms between these pages. It is based on a “triple linked list” structure, where “back”, “forward”, and “homepage” pointers are maintained and potentially can be extended to unlimited pointers wherever an “n-tuple linked list” might be needed. Two further problems associated with the development of Web-based systems: the tracing and the maintenance of the same page across different systems or even across different servers have also been tackled |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2000 | 10.1109/EURMIC.2000.874402 | EUROMICRO |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
triple linked list structure,black boxes,web page reuse techniques,master page,n-tuple linked list,information resources,web site,software reusability,dynamic referential navigational guide,generic web pages,navigational links,navigational mechanisms,pointers,software maintenance,documentation,functional programming,web pages,software quality,navigation,software engineering,cost effectiveness,algorithms,software component,productivity | World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Reuse,Server,Software,Software maintenance,Component-based software engineering,Software quality,Reusability | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | ISBN |
2 | 1089-6503 | 0-7695-0780-8 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 1 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eng Huat Ng | 1 | 2 | 1.34 |
| Stu Wade | 2 | 1 | 0.96 |
| Claude Ghaoui | 3 | 10 | 4.54 |