Web Engineering

This book gives a unique account of the emerging field of Web engineering by presenting 25 thoroughly reviewed papers drawn from two recent workshops on the topic together with introductory and motivating surveys and a list of Web engineering resources in chapters on - Web engineering: introduction and perspectives - Web-based system development: process and methodology - Managing information on the Web - Development tools, skills, and case studies - Performance, testing, and Web metrices - Web maintenance and reuseThe book will appeal equally to researchers, students, professionals and practitioners in industry interested in developing, maintaining, and using advanced Web-based systems and applications.

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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 Attributes for 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.