Abstract
Today’s web applications heavily employ JavaScript to cover wide parts of the applications’ front ends. The scripting language, often called the “lingua franca” of the web, is also becoming increasingly popular for building enterprise-grade applications. However, in practice, the language is criticized for being too unstructured, flawed and inadequate for such projects. In this contribution, the major problems with JavaScript as the language of choice for enterprise applications are analyzed and possible solutions to ensure the quality of such systems are discussed.
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Nitze, A. (2015). Evaluation of JavaScript Quality Issues and Solutions for Enterprise Application Development. In: Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Bergsmann, J. (eds) Software Quality. Software and Systems Quality in Distributed and Mobile Environments. SWQD 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 200. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13251-8_7
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