RE: Effect of heterogeneity of website code on the sample

Some references:
Homogeneity in statistics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneity_(statistics)
Homogeneity and heterogeneity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous#Statistics

I think there may be a "spectrum" of website code from homogeneous to heterogeneous.  Maybe we should think of characteristics (properties, attributes) of code which would make it homogeneous or heterogeneous (and on what level)

Thanks and best wishes
Tim Boland NIST  
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From: Velleman, Eric [evelleman@bartimeus.nl]
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 6:07 AM
To: public-wai-evaltf@w3.org
Subject: Effect of heterogeneity of website code on the sample

Dear EvalTF,

There may be different developers using different coding styles on the same website. In that case, sampling one or two tables for evaluation may not be enough. In our Telco, we referred to this as homogeneity or heterogeneity of the website code. There could be different causes for the one or the other. Not in all cases do website owners know about this.

Some questions for first input and discussion:

1. First of all, we would need a good term and a definition. Is this already used in W3C documents yet? or elsewhere?

2. What (possible) causes are there for homogeneity or heterogeneity of website code? And which ones are (most) important for a website evaluation?

3. How can a website evaluator conclude if there is homogeneity or heterogeneity of website code?

4. What would be the effect on the sample?

Kindest regards,

Eric

Received on Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:31:04 UTC