Title
On the sustainability of web systems evolution
Abstract
In the last twenty years, the evolution of web systems has been driven along three dimensions: the processes used to develop, evolve, maintain and re-engineer the systems themselves; the end products (the pages, content and links) of such processes; and finally the people dimension, with the extraordinary shift in how developers and users shape, interact and maintain the code and content that they put online. This paper reviews the questions that each of these dimensions has addressed in the past, and indicates which ones will need to be addressed in the future, in order for web system evolution to be sustainable. We show that the study on websites evolution has shifted from server- to client-side, focusing on better technologies and processes, and that the users becoming creators of content open several open questions, in particular the issue of credibility of the content created and the sustainability of such resources in the long term.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/WSE.2013.6642413
WSE
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
users shape,web system evolution,extraordinary shift,open question,long term,better technology,web systems evolution,end product,web system,people dimension,websites evolution
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Renata Marques100.34
Andrea Capiluppi248842.51
Andres Baravalle343.18
Cornelia Boldyreff446456.05