Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security, and Usability

By Jeff Rashka, Elfriede Dustin, Debbie Lafferty

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201719363
• ISBN13: 9780201719369
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book on various quality topics

This book was a joy to read. It gives a great overview of quality issues within "Web systems" - meaning Web applications and architectures. The book balances a too-specific look with a too-general look and succeeds quite well in a balanced treatment that will make the whole worth the attention of any quality assurance or quality tester professional in the Information Technology industry.In particular, the second chapter, on...

Once again another blockbuster!

This is one of the best quality assurance books in a while... Thinner than Automated Software Testing, but as informative! If you are doing any kind of web testing, this one's a must have for your library. Talks about all aspects of software testing on the web. I give it 5 stars hands down!

Covers all of the major issues and factors

Although the authors of this book are noted experts in software testing this book goes far beyond testing by addressing the full range of quality and design issues for web-based systems.All of the major elements of web-engineering and quality are addressed, including SECURITY (this is the first test or quality book that fully acknowledges the relationship between quality and security, which is a cornerstone of the Reliability-Availability-Support...

Finally, A Book to Create a True Dot Com not Dot Bomb

This book finally puts into perspective the real reason a lot of the dot coms busted, lack of orderly web site/business planning.This book goes far beyond just testing for the web, it addresses the need to understand you just can't throw a business on the internet because you happen to be able to create a web-page. It keeps the end-user, ultimately the customer, in mind at all times. It provides insightful case studies so...

Practical and relevant

Quality Web Systems is another thorough and complete book by the same team who wrote Automated Software Testing. I am finding the same quality and insight in this book. Web Systems testing is THE critical testing area in software quality assurance today. I appreciate the thoughtful and practical approach this text takes. I found the sections on Usability Test Strategies and the test tool evaluation guide particularly relevant...