A Suite of Metrics for Evaluating Client-Side web Applications: An Empirical Validation

Abstract

Currently the web software development of the client-side is growing fast. This has made JavaScript-based software and related tools grow fast too. However, this growth makes more evident the need to develop applications with a higher level of quality. This paper aims to identify a suite of quality metrics used in software development using JavaScript from a review of the literature on the subject. The analysis of the literature shown a total of 26 metrics identified without a clear domain of some of them. A validation with experienced JavaScript programmers shows that the Metrics of Maintainability, Linters, Number of Functions and Average Data Refresh as the most relevant.