Metamodeling to Control and Audit E-Commerce Web Applications

With the increasing popularity of e-commerce, the growth potential of business is extraordinary; however, the path toward success can also be dangerous because of problems of quality control, security breaches, and e-service failures. One of the problems is that business managers generally lack suff...

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Veröffentlicht in:International journal of electronic commerce 2012-10, Vol.17 (1), p.83-118
Hauptverfasser: Huang, Shi-Ming, Hua, Jing-Shiuan, Will, Hartmut, Wu, Jhen-Wei
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:With the increasing popularity of e-commerce, the growth potential of business is extraordinary; however, the path toward success can also be dangerous because of problems of quality control, security breaches, and e-service failures. One of the problems is that business managers generally lack sufficient assurance that the controls over e-processes are effective and efficient and that information announced to customers is correct and reliable. Powerful metamodeling is therefore required. The objective of this research is to develop an e-process audit mechanism by applying automatic model checking to check consistency between e-process flows implemented and those originally designed; to detect errors in the structure and contents of Web applications; and to assist the internal control and assurance managers with their frequent monitoring of the internal controls of Web applications. A prototype has been developed to evaluate the feasibility of the mechanism and has been applied in a real e-commerce case. The results show that it proved useful for the internal control and assurance purposes in the case company.
ISSN:1086-4415
1557-9301
DOI:10.2753/JEC1086-4415170104