Release-Waiting Farm: An Original Framework for Reducing the Pre-release Failures of Web Plug-In on Social Networking Site

In recent years, Web plug-ins have been flourishing social networking sites. Web plug-in is successful since it results in unique user experience, and promotes the fast-pace innovation of Web technologies. However, the plug-ins developed by end users also introduces many new problems to both networking and software engineering fields. One of the key problems is pre-release failure. In other words, the failures that we can avoid before release are usually found after software release. Unfortunately, existing methods fail to avoid the pre-release failures of Web plug-ins. To do this, this paper introduces an experimental technology, namely release-waiting farm. It not only maintains the creative environment of end users, encourages them to deliver plug-ins, but effectively formalizes their development process, thus provide long-term benefit to both users and Web sites.