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“Evaluating Web Page Reliability across Varied Browsing Environments” by Cyntrica Eaton and Atif M. Memon. In Proceedings of The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'04), (Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France), Nov. 2004.
Web page reliability is significantly influenced by a web client's configuration defined by the browser type, browser version, and operating system installed on the client. It is non-trivial for a web application developer to predict the client configurations in which the application will execute (and/or fail to execute) reliably. We have developed a tool that evaluates the reliability of web applications by leveraging the relationship between two key accessibility factors: (1) the HTML tags that structure a given web page and (2) the support provided for each tag in target browsing environments. We describe a learning mechanism that inductively acquires knowledge of tag support criteria based on observed samples of reliably accessible (properly rendered) and inaccessible (faulty) web page source code. Our contribution provides web developers with a basis for maximizing audience reach through improved awareness of the browsing environment profiles associated with diminished accessibility to their web-sites.
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BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{EatonISSRE2004,
author = {Cyntrica Eaton and Atif M. Memon},
title = {Evaluating Web Page Reliability across Varied Browsing
Environments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of The 15th IEEE International Symposium on
Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'04)},
address = {Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France},
month = nov,
year = {2004}
}
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