Web site evolution is an emerging area of research. It is primarily concerned with developing software tools to support maintenance and evolution of web sites, which usually involves taking standard analyses, metrics, visualizations, etc. and applying them to web applications. In the same manner as with other types of source code, the first step is to extract facts to be used later for analysis and presentation.
WebETS (Web Extractor Test Suite) would follow the same pattern that was set by CppETS and JETS. The goal is to create a series of programs or code snippets to test and compare the capabilities of different fact extractors. A paper previously written by Holger Kienle would serve as a starting point for this research.
Holger Kienle and Susan Elliott Sim. Towards a Benchmark for Web Site Extractors: Call for Participation, Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Benevento, Italy, pp. 82-90, 26-28 March, 2003.