Development and maintenance of a Web site for a Bachelor program

Author

Kienle, Holger M. ; Weber, Anke ; Martin, Johannes ; Müller, Hausi A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

fYear

2003

fDate

22-22 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

20

Lastpage

29

Abstract

This paper describes our experiences with the development and maintenance of the BSENG Web site, which provides information about a new Bachelor program for software engineering at the University of Victoria. The site´s requirements lead to a design that emphasizes simplicity to ease maintenance. We used Macromedia Dreamweaver to develop the site. During development, we identified two important maintenance tasks: detection of dead links and preservation of the site´s navigational structure, that are not well supported by Dreamweaver. We discuss how we use the Rigi reverse engineering environment to aid the Web site developer with these maintenance tasks.

Keywords

Web design; computer science education; educational computing; educational courses; programming environments; reverse engineering; software maintenance; BSENG Web site; Bachelor program; Macromedia Dreamweaver; Rigi; Web development; reverse engineering environment; software engineering course; Buildings; Computer science; Documentation; Maintenance; Navigation; Psychology; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Software systems; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Site Evolution, 2003. Theme: Architecture. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2016-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSE.2003.1234005

Filename

1234005