SafeHome Products Security and M

Case Study - Overview

Web Engineering:
A Practitioners Approach
Roger Pressman, David Lowe

This website is a partial prototype of the fictional SafeHome Products application - a case study developed to support the book: Web Engineering: A Practitioners Approach, written by Roger Pressman and David Lowe.

The website prototype is only a partial implementation, and aims to illustrate the main components of the site and some of the design elements. On each of the prototype pages there is a link in the top right corner which, when clicked, provides some additional information regarding the design of that page.

Note: Where the real WebApp would contain a link, but in this prototype the link isn't implemented, it will be shown with a dotted underline.

Dummy Link

This website is only a partial prototype of the fictional SafeHome Products application. As such this link is not yet operational. Non-operational links are shown with a dotted underline.

Bonus Information
WebApp Design IQ Checklist

The following WebApp Design IQ (Importance/Quality) checklist (derived from the sources discussed in this book) provides a set of key WebApp characteristics that need to be considered during design. By considering these items, both Web engineers and end-users can quickly assess overall WebApp quality, and then focus their attention on quality items that need further consideration:

For each quality item listed below, give a score to both I and Q. Those items that have an overall rating of 5 or higher potentially need further consideration. Those that have a rating of 10 or higher are areas of major concern.

I(mportance) rating: rate the importance of this characteristic for the WebApp
0 = minimal significance for this WebApp
5 = high significance for this WebApp

Q(uality) rating: rate the current quality level of the WebApp design or implementation
0 = minimal quality concerns for this WebApp
5 = substantial quality concerns for this WebApp

I		Q		Rating	Design Characteristic
					*Usability*
	x		=		Global understandibility (appropriate metaphors etc.)
	x		=		Appropriate feedback and help features
	x		=		Interface intuitiveness (aka learnability)
	x		=		Structural navigability
	x		=		Navigation integrity (link correctness, completeness, etc.)
	x		=		Site overviews (maps, trails, breadcrumbs, etc.)
	x		=		User adaptation and customization
	x		=		Other:
					Content
	x		=		Content completeness (scope and depth)
	x		=		Content correctness
	x		=		Content currency
	x		=		Content relevance
	x		=		Content accuracy and authoritativeness
	x		=		User perceptions of content
	x		=		Other:
					Functional
	x		=		Functional accessibility
	x		=		Functional consistency
	x		=		Functional correctness
	x		=		Searching and indexing capabilities
	x		=		Exception handling and error recovery
	x		=		Other:
					Non-Functional
	x		=		Data Security
	x		=		User perception of security
	x		=		WebApp availability
	x		=		WebApp extensibility
	x		=		WebApp responsiveness and performance
	x		=		Other:
	x		=		Developmental
	x		=		Ease of correction
	x		=		Extensibility and adaptability
	x		=		Other: