Analysis and Testing of Ajax-based Single-page Web Applications

equally and we chose to use an alphabetical ordering. All publications have
been co-authored by Arie van Deursen.
Chapter 2 This chapter was published in the Journal of Systems and Software
(JSS), in December 2008, as Mesbah and van Deursen (2008a).
An earlier version of this chapter appeared in the Proceedings of the
6 th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA
2007) (Mesbah and van Deursen, 2007a). Thanks to Engin Bozdag for
his feedback on this chapter.
Chapter 3 This chapter was published in the Proceedings of the 11 th European
Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR
2007) as Mesbah and van Deursen (2007b).
A short version also appeared in the Proceedings of the 29 th International
Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), Doctoral Symposium
(Mesbah, 2007).
Chapter 4 This chapter has been accepted for publication in the Journal of
Web Engineering (JWE), in September 2008, as Bozdag et al. (2009).
An earlier version of this chapter appeared in the Proceedings of the
9 th IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2007)
(Bozdag et al., 2007).
Chapter 5 This chapter was published in the Proceedings of the 8 th International
Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2008) as Mesbah et al.
(2008).
Chapter 6 This chapter has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings
of the 31 st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE
2009), Research Papers, as Mesbah and van Deursen (2009).
This publication has won one of five ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper
awards, which puts it in the top 10% of the accepted papers at ICSE
2009, a conference that had an acceptance rate of 12% to begin with.
Furthermore, our research has resulted in the following publications that
are not directly included in this thesis:
• Modelling and Generating Ajax Applications: A Model-Driven Approach.
In Proceedings of the 7 th International Workshop on Web-
Oriented Software Technologies (IWWOST 2008) (Gharavi et al., 2008).
• Crosscutting Concerns in J2EE Applications. In Proceedings of the 7 th
IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2005) (Mesbah
and van Deursen, 2005).
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