Web development productivity improvement through object-oriented application framework

Most of the commercial and industrial web applications are complex, difficult to implement, risky to maintain and requires deep understanding of the requirements for customization. As today's software market is more competitive, productivity has become a major concern in software development industry. The aim of this research is to design and develop an application framework for accelerating web development productivity through object-oriented technology. It allows customization, design reuse and automatic code generation to support productivity improvement as a breakthrough solution for the given problem. This research employed systematic literature review (SLR) to identify the source of complexity and productivity factors. Agile development methodology was used to design the framework and it was validated by empirical data from two commercial projects. Results showed that object-oriented application framework (OOAF) has significant factors that affect productivity and dramatically improve higher productivity over traditional approach. It has fulfilled the current needs by reducing complexities, development efforts and accelerates web development productivity. This research contributes in the area of software engineering, specifically in the field of software productivity improvement and software customization. These will lead to faster development time for software industries

Towards increasing web application development productivity through object-oriented framework

Software development remains complex, expensive and risky.Thus, the need for reusability has become obvious.Through reusability web developers/engineers can save countless hours and millions of dollars in development cost. Object-oriented (OO) framework mechanism provides a new vehicle for reuse and enables web engineers to customize or reuse various aspects in web engineering such as customizing one or more elements of user interface, automatically generate event handlers, data handlers or related data elements based on changes made by them.The OO framework mechanism includes tags and scripts that predefine some generic web application activities and a common programming interface for generating a framework customization environment. This study provides a novel solution to produce high quality web applications within a shortest development timeframe through the means of customization, reusability, extensibility and flexibility.At the end, this study will conduct a comprehensive evaluation on the proposed OO framework. Building on previous works, this study emphasized the reuse of design, code and testing as a tool to uncover strengths and weaknesses of the OO framework for dynamic web engineering

Industrial web application customization mechanism to improve software quality and productivity

Competition in the software market for industrial use is very challenging.Quality and productivity of software is very important to the software industry to remain competitive.Most of the commercial and industrial web applications are complex, hard to implement, risky to maintain and customization requires deep understanding of the requirements.Research showed that customization and reusability may increase the productivity and quality of the software and also decrease the development time.Unfortunately, implementing systematic reuse and customize existing system has proven to be a difficult process.While software engineers continue to struggle with cost and time, reuse has emerged as a good engineering principles and practice in various fields.However, technology to completely integrate user interface, reuse design, customization and implementation is still immature.The aim of this study is to provide a novel visual object sharing technique for designing, customizing, reusing and visualizing web elements to provide a breakthrough solution for the given problems. This technique support and provide rapid development of web-based business application where all of these underlying data and application codes are defined by meta-data, tag library and XSLT schema.This study contributes mainly in the field of reusability and customization for the web application.This study also demonstrated empirical data from two commercial projects and the results indicated that proposed object-oriented application framework (OOAF) is consistently better than traditional methods.By using OOAF, software industries are able to reduce development time, increase the quality and productivity of web application.

Regional communities, membership and socialisation : a comparative analysis

The study of how regional communities socialise human rights via membership has long been wedded to the detailed focus on the European Union (EU) as the most prominent example of that phenomenon. However, this over focus has unbalanced studies of how regional communities, membership and socialisation intersect, and the over concentration on a single atypical case has created an unhealthy preoccupation with notions of conditionality. This work corrects this myopia through a focus on the ASEAN relationship with Myanmar and the Organization of American States (OAS) relationship with Panama, as well as the EU relationship with Turkey. A comparative investigation of how membership, regional communities and socialisation interact provides not only empirical novelty, but requires innovative methodologies and theoretical frameworks. Methodologically, this study rests on the move towards analytical eclecticism already well established in the discipline more broadly. However, to do justice to the extended range of empirical studies, this work moves the foundations of this eclecticism into how we define norms and socialisation. To investigate the shortcomings of unreconstructed eclectic efforts, and to suggest new ways forward, this study rests on a Critical Realist definitional framework, shifting the foundations of studying socialisation to a post positivist premise. Based upon this, the theoretical framework presents rational choice and constructivist accounts of socialisation embedded in an empirically rich analysis along the spectrum of membership, running from applying to a regional community through to maintaining that right once achieved. The combination of empirical, methodological and theoretical innovations suggests a sequence of conclusions. Different types of regional community present different socialisation mechanisms, in different combinations and with different stories of success and failure. Rationalist explanations are revealed to be only part of the socialisation jigsaw when the EU is compared to different examples. Whilst always present, rationally construable processes are potentially joined by member-states pushing forwards their own agendas via the community membership process. Extending our analysis into socialisation once a member reveals the significance of community building dynamics. Community building creates rich discursive environments, where potential future plans compete with each other for dominance. Revising standards also creates the possibility of Social Sanction, Rhetorical Action and Naming and Shaming. The ultimate success or failure of these socialisation efforts rest on a combination of the strength of the norm in question, the mechanisms by which it is promoted and protected and a broader impression that those standards are meant to be binding in the real world