Web Engineering: The Discipline of Systematic Development of Web Applications - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470015543 ISBN 13: 9780470015544

Publisher: Wiley, 2006

Synopsis

The World Wide Web has a massive and permanent influence on our lives. Economy, industry, education, healthcare, public administration, entertainment – there is hardly any part of our daily lives which has not been pervaded by the Internet. Accordingly, modern Web applications are fully-fledged, complex software systems, and in order to be successful their development must be thorough and systematic.

This book presents a new discipline called Web Engineering taking a rigorous interdisciplinary approach to the development of Web applications, covering Web development concepts, methods, tools and techniques. It highlights the need to examine and re-use the body of knowledge found within software engineering and demonstrates how to use that knowledge within the Web environment, putting emphasize on current practices, experiences and pitfalls.

The book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students on Web-focused or Software Engineering courses, as well as Web software developers, Web designers and project managers.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The World Wide Web has a massive and permanent influence on our lives. Economy, industry, education, healthcare, public administration, entertainment – there is hardly any part of our daily lives which has not been pervaded by the Internet.

Accordingly, modern Web applications are fully-fledged, complex software systems, and in order to be successful their development must be thorough and systematic. Web Engineering is the application of quantifiable approaches to the cost-effective requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, operation and maintenance of high quality Web applications.

Web Engineers face the same traditional concerns as Software Engineers: the risks of failure to meet business needs, project schedule delays, budget overruns and poor quality of deliverables. But in the Web environment new and complicated issues demand attention, too. Web Engineering addresses the problems associated with shorter lead times which require rapid prototyping and agile methods, the interactivity and visual nature of the medium which make HCI aspects highly significant, and multimedia features of Web applications.

This well-organized guide takes a rigorous interdisciplinary approach to Web Engineering, covering Web development concepts, methods, tools and techniques, and is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students on Web-focused or Software Engineering courses, as well as Web software developers, Web designers and project managers.

About the Author

Gerti Kappel is full professor of Business Informatics at Vienna University of Technology.

Birgit Pröll teaches and researches at Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria.

Siegfried Reich is director of Salzburg Research, the non-profit research organization owned by the County of Salzburg.

Werner Retschitzegger is head of Department of Information Systems at JKU.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0470015543
• ISBN 13: 9780470015544
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Gerti Kappel, Birgit Prýýll, Siegfried Reich, Werner Retschitzegger