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Web Applications - Spaghetti Code for the 21st Century
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Author(s):
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Tommi Mikkonen and Antero Taivalsaari
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Available Formats:
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TR-2007-166
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June 2007
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| Abstract |
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The software industry is currently in the middle of a paradigm shift.
Applications are increasingly written for the World Wide Web rather
than for any specific type of an operating system, computer or device.
Unfortunately, the technologies used for web application development
today violate well-known software engineering principles. Furthermore,
they have reintroduced problems that had already been eliminated years
ago in the aftermath of the “spaghetti code wars” of the 1970s.
In this paper, we investigate web application development from the
viewpoint of established software engineering principles. We argue
that current web technologies are inadequate in supporting many of
these principles. However, we also argue that there is no fundamental
reason for web applications to be any worse than conventional
applications in any of these areas. Rather, the current inadequacies
are just an accidental consequence of the poor conceptual and
technological foundation of the web development technologies today.
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