Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability - Softcover

Debbie Lafferty; Dustin, Elfriede; Rashka, Jeff; McDiarmid, Douglas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201719363 ISBN 13: 9780201719369

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2001

Synopsis

Enterprise Web developers are trapped between a rock and a hard place: they're under tremendous pressure to get to market fast -- but if they deploy systems of poor quality, they will drive away customers -- losing revenue and market share for years to come. Quality Web Systems gives software professionals start-to-finish resources for enhancing quality and accelerating development at the same time. Quality Web Systems identifies the key obstacles to delivering Web systems that deliver promised levels of performance, security, and usability -- and proven solutions. Coverage includes: identifying key success criteria for Web development; specifying Web system functionality through RSI (Requirement-Service-Interface) use cases; creating test cases; checking browser and platform compatibility; identifying and testing for security vulnerabilities; planning and evaluating ease-of-use; and meeting specified performance and scalability requirements.

About this title

About the Author

Elfriede Dustin is the lead author of Automated Software Testing (Addison-Wesley, 1999), and Quality Web Systems (Addison-Wesley, 2002). An acknowledged expert in software engineering and testing practices, she has assisted numerous companies in the definition and implementation of QA and testing processes. For more information, please see her Web site at www.effectivesoftwaretesting.com.

Jeff Rashka is coauthor of Automated Software Testing. He has significant industry experience as a test/quality assurance manager, software development program manager, and software division director. In addition, he has served as a SEI CMM /ISO 9000 Process Improvement Director.

Douglas McDiarmid is a consultant specializing in the architecture and development of distributed web systems from use case modeling through definition and verification of system requirements. His experience in Internet-based enterprise systems includes sales force automation, medical bill auditing, and financial management.

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From the Back Cover

Today's web software professionals must deliver new web applications to market quickly, while incorporating proper functionality, ease-of-use, security, and performance. This pressure underscores the need for effective engineering that facilitates both quality and rapid web system development.

Quality Web Systems provides web developers and software test professionals with practical, experience-based guidance on web system engineering. Concise and straightforward, this book provides a framework for ensuring that key web system success criteria is addressed during the development of the web system. Detailed, technical guidance is provided for each success criteria, including testing strategies that allow for verification of a quality implementation.

This book addresses the key success factors of quality web systems including: proper specification of system functionality, ease-of-use, compatibility with a variety of browsers, security, and system performance and scalability. Engineering these qualities into the system throughout the development life cycle, while performing relevant testing, prevents flaws that can later prove to be disastrous, and produces a product that is well-received by its customers.

A case study is used throughout the book to illustrate practical applications of issues, approaches, strategies, and techniques.

Specific topics covered include:

• Web system success criteria
• Engineering functionality through use case analysis
• Test cases from RSI use cases
• Security of web system components and databases
• Compatibility with multiple web browsers
• Performance and scalability behavior
• Load analysis and capacity planning
• Usability concerns and test strategies
• Test tool evaluation guide

With the information and guidance in Quality Web Systems, you will be better able to ensure the development of a quality, timely, and successful web application.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0201719363
• ISBN 13: 9780201719369
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336