Web Service Testing and Usability for Mobile Learning

Based on the summary of recent renowned publications, Mobile Learning (ML) has become an emerging technology, as well as a new technique that can enhance the quality of learning. Due to the increasing importance of ML, the investigation of such impacts on the e-Science community is amongst the hot topics, which also relate to part of these research areas: Grid Infrastructure, Wireless Communication, Virtual Research Organization and Semantic Web. The above examples contribute to the demonstrations of how Mobile Learning can be applied into e-Science applications, including usability. However, there are few papers addressing testing and quality engineering issues – the core component for software engineering. Therefore, the major purpose of this paper is to present how Web Service Testing for Mobile Learning can be carried out, in addition to re-investigating the influences of the usability issue with both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Out of many mobile technologies available, the Pocket PC and Tablet PC have been chosen as the equipment; and the OMII Web Service, the 64-bit .NET e-portal and the GPS-PDA are the software tools to be used for Web Service testing

Semantic annotation, publication, and discovery of Java software components: an integrated approach

Component-based software development has matured into standard practice in software engineering. Among the advantages of reusing software modules are lower costs, faster development, more manageable code, increased productivity, and improved software quality. As the number of available software components has grown, so has the need for effective component search and retrieval. Traditional search approaches, such as keyword matching, have proved ineffective when applied to software components. Applying a semantically- enhanced approach to component classification, publication, and discovery can greatly increase the efficiency of searching and retrieving software components. This has been already applied in the context of Web technologies, and Web services in particular, in the frame of Semantic Web Services research. This paper examines the similarities between software components and Web services and adapts an existing Semantic Web Service publication and discovery solution into a software component annotation and discovery tool which is implemented as an Eclipse plug-in

APPLICATION OF PRODUCT QUALITY ASSURANCE IN MANUFACTURE, CASE STUDY IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, SRIWIJAYA UNIVERSITY

Product Quality Assurance (PQA) is a standard procedure to ensure the product quality in practical manufacturing engineering. In this study the PQA-procedure will be applied for academic assurance in Mechanical Engineering Department, Sriwijaya University. The objective of this study is to generate web based Academic Quality Assurance (AQA) in the Department, which accomplices with National Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (BAN-PT). The development of web based AQA was carried out using an open source PHP, MySQL, CSS and REST API to ensure the web integration with the existing website of Sriwijaya University. The results show that this application can overcome the existing problems when the Academic Quality Assurance was conducted manually. The AQA web can work smoothl

A quality management based on the Quality Model life cycle

Managing quality is a hard and expensive task that involves the execution and control of processes and techniques. For a good quality management, it is important to know the current state and the objective to be achieved. It is essential to take into account with a Quality Model that specifies the purposes of managing quality. QuEF (Quality Evaluation Framework) is a framework to manage quality in MDWE (Model-driven Web Engineering). This paper suggests managing quality but pointing out the Quality Model life cycle. The purpose is to converge toward a quality continuous improvement by means of reducing effort and time.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN2010-20057-C03-02Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación TIN 2010-12312-EJunta de Andalucía TIC-578

Web Engineering: An Assessment of Empirical Research

Web engineering is the process used to create high-quality Web-based systems and applications that deliver a complex array of content and functionality to a broad population of end-users. As Web Engineering continues to grow in popularity with practitioners and academics alike, so far, there hasn\u27t been any assessment of its accumulated body of knowledge in terms of academic research. Because Web engineering was established as a new discipline some five years ago, it is perhaps time to take stock of the efforts made in this field. Using the Web Engineering Process Model developed by Pressman, this paper organizes and map progress made so far. The results suggest a significant need for theory-based research in Web Engineering. The paper discusses some of the managerial and research implications of the findings

Towards a quality evaluation framework for model-driven web engineering methodologies

Various development methodologies currently exist in the field of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE). Given the high number of methodologies available, it is necessary to evaluate the quality of the existing methodologies and provide helpful information to the developers. Furthermore, proposals are constantly appearing and the need may arise not only to evaluate the quality but also to find out how it can be improved. This article presents the work being carried out in this field and describes tasks to define a Quality Evaluation Framework (QuEF) to evaluate, under objective measures the quality of Model-Driven Web Engineering methodologies.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-67843-C06-03Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-30391-

QuEF - An Environment for Quality Evaluation on Model-driven Web Engineering Approaches

Due to the high number and wide variety of methodologies which currently exist in the field of Model- Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) methodologies, it has become necessary to evaluate the quality of the existing methodologies to provide helpful information for the developers. Since proposals are constantly appearing, the need may arise not only to evaluate quality but also to find out how it can be improved. This article presents work being carried out in this field and describes tasks to define QuEF (Quality Evaluation Framework), which is an environment to evaluate, under objective measures, the quality of Model-Driven Web Engineering methodologies.Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-67843-C06-03Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia TIN2007-30391-