Introduction
eValid has been chosen as an example website test system for use in Prof. Neal Hirsh's graduate level course on e-Business technology and metrics at Johns Hopkins University: Electronic Commerce Methods and Metrics.

Course Description
E-commerce is a general term for doing business on the Worldwide Web. To a great extent, success or failure of the business depends on the tradeoff of cost, revenue, and service per type of customer. In this course, tradeoffs are taught by utilizing data from web access logs, measurements of website performance, server benchmarks, product literature, and demographics.

The information is consolidated through quantitative techniques such as linear programming. Students summarize the tradeoffs in written reports, which are subsequently presented and discussed in class. During the course, students also disassemble a contemporary e-commerce server to acquire a closer understanding of e-commerce requirements.

Contact
Dr. Neale Hirsh, Adjunct Professor, E-Commerce, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. vze3dtrr@verizon.net