Web Engineering: Managing Diversity and Complexity of Web Application Development

by San Murugesan (Editor), Yogesh Deshpande (Editor)

Overview

Inlessthanadecadeofexistence, theWebhasreachedatrulystaggeringstage, demonstratedbythescope, thereach, andthesizeofWeb-basedapplications andactivities. Concentratinginitiallyoninformationdissemination, thescopeof theapplicationsisnowlimitedonlybyourimagination. Thereachisconstantly expandingandsoarethenumberandsizeoftheapplications, alongwiththe underlyingcomplexity, rangeofpurposes, andthetimeneededtodevelopand maintainthem. Atthesametime, thedevelopmentandmaintenanceprocesses ofWebapplicationshavenotprogressedatasu?cientlyrapidpacetomeetthese challengesanddemands. Consequently, thelikelihoodisthatWebapplication developmentwillgetintoacrisisanditisnothardtoimaginethatthiswould dwarfthe'softwarecrisis'identi?edlongagointhe1960s. WebEngineeringaimstoavertthispotentialcrisisbygeneratingaproactive approachtothesuccessfuldevelopmentofWeb-basedsystemsandapplications. WebEngineeringinvolvestheuseofscienti?c, engineering, andmanagement principlesandsystematicapproacheswiththeaimofsuccessfullydeveloping, deploying, andmaintaininghighqualityWeb-basedsystemsandapplications. WebEngineering, initscurrentform, isanearlyattempttoidentifythes- ni?cantissuesandproblems, andtheirsolutions, indevelopingWeb-basedapp- cations. Asweseeit, WebEngineeringisnotyetestablishedasafulldiscipline norhasitdevelopedanidenti?ableorstableform, sinceeverythingconnected withtheWebisstillinastateof?ux. Oneonlyhastolookatthenumberof variedactivitiesthattheWorldWideWebConsortiumisengagedintorealise thatastableWebenvironment, andhenceprovenmethodsfordevelopmental activitiesbasedontheWeb, isstillsomedistanceaway. OurearlyforaysintotheWebarena, withtheconstantexcitementofnew developmentsandchallenges, forcefullybroughttomindourentryintothec- puting?eld, almostthreedecadesago. Atthattime, comparedtowhatthe technologycoulddo, oure?ortsincomputerizingpayrollandaccountingapp- cationsinrealityseemedpunyanddisappointing. TheWeb, ontheotherhand, didnotseemshackled, inawaythatearlycomputingwas, tothesebure- craticandunimaginativewaysofconductinghumanandorganizationala?airs. Itseemedthattheorganizational, spatial, andphysicalconstraintswereabout toloosen, ifnotdisappear, altogether. Andyet, whenwelookedaroundatthewayWebsitesandapplicationswere beingdeveloped, itseemedtousthattheearlypatternofhaphazarddev- opment, minimaltesting, andlackofattentiontothemaintenanceissuesthat characterisedthe'softwarecrisis'werestillverymuchwithus. Itwasasthough the'newgeneration'insistedonmakingthesamemistakesasitsparents! Thisfeelingofd´e&jgrave;avuledustoquestionthenatureofWeb-basedandW- relatedactivities. Ofcourse, wewerenotalone, aswesoondiscovered. The resultiswhatisbeingcalledWebEngineeringwhichhadits?rstintroduction inaworkshopattheSeventhWorldWideWeb(WWW7)conferenceinBrisbane in1998. IthasnowbecomeaserieswithmoreworkshopsatWWW8(Toronto, VI Preface 1999)andWWW9(Amsterdam,2000), andalsoattheInternationalConference onSoftwareEngineering(ICSE99)in1999inLosAngelesandICSE2000in Limerick, Ireland. AnotherworkshopisscheduledforWWW10inHongKong inMay2001. Themainpurposebehindtheseworkshopshasbeentoshareandpoolthe collectiveexperienceofpeople, bothacademicsandpractitioners, whoare- tivelyworkingonWeb-basedsystems. Theworkshopshavegenerallyconsisted ofkeynoteaddresses, peer-reviewedcontributedpapers, andsessionsofopen discussions. About This Book Inthisvolume, weprovideaconsolidatedviewofrecentwork, highlightingdev- opmentsandadvancesintheareaofWebEngineering. Thisselectionofpapers drawsmainlyfromthelastthreeworkshops, heldinconjunctionwithICSE1999, WWW9, andICSE2000. Wealsopres

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540421306
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	06/15/2001
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #2016
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Web Engineering: Introduction and Perspectives.- Web Engineering: Introduction and Perspectives.- Web Engineering: a New Discipline for Development of Web-Based Systems.- Web Engineering: Beyond CS, IS and SE Evolutionary and Non-Engineering Perspectives.- Web Engineering in Action.- Web-Based Systems Development: Process and Methodology.- Web-Based Systems Development: Process and Methodology.- Corporate Web Development: from Process Infancy to Maturity - a Case Study.- Applying Cross-Functional Evolutionary Methodologies to Web Development.- Development and Evolution of Web-Applications Using the WebComposition Process Model.- Engineering the Web for Multimedia.- Modelling Security Policies in Hypermedia and Web- Based Applications.- Web-Based Information Systems Development - a User Centered Engineering Approach.- Rapid Service Development: an Integral Approach to E-Business Engineering.- Managing Information on the Web.- Managing Information on the Web.- Layout, Content and Logic Separation in Web Engineering.- Restraining Content Explosion vs. Constraining Content Growth.- A Classification of Web Adaptivity: Tailoring Content and Navigational Systems of Advanced Web Applications.- Web Engineering: the Developers’ View and a Practitioner’s Approach.- Development Tools, Skills and Case Studies.- Development Tools, Skills and Case Studies.- Synthesis of Web Sites from High Level Descriptions.- Meta-XML Specification.- Engineering of Two Web-Enabled Commercial Software Services.- A Skills Hierarchy for Web-Based Systems Development.- A Case Study of a Web-Based Timetabling System.- Performance, Testing and Web Metrics.- Performance, Testing and Web Metrics.- Engineering Highly Accessed Web Sites for Performance.- Specifying Quality Characteristics and Attributesfor Websites.- A Framework for Defining Acceptance Criteria for Web Development Projects.- Measurement and Effort Prediction for Web Applications.- Web Navigability Testing with Remote Agents.- Web Maintenance and Reuse.- Web Maintenance and Reuse.- Improving Web-Site Maintenance with TANGOW by Making Page Structure and Contents Independent.- Web Design Frameworks: An Approach to Improve Reuse in Web Applications.