Web Engineering: Managing Diversity and Complexity of Web Application Development

✍ Scribed by San Murugesan, Yogesh Deshpande (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2016
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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. Softcover.

✦ Table of Contents

Web Engineering: Introduction and Perspectives....Pages 1-2
Web Engineering: a New Discipline for Development of Web-Based Systems....Pages 3-13
Web Engineering: Beyond CS, IS and SE Evolutionary and Non-Engineering Perspectives....Pages 14-23
Web Engineering in Action....Pages 24-32
Web-Based Systems Development: Process and Methodology....Pages 33-35
Corporate Web Development: from Process Infancy to Maturity - a Case Study....Pages 36-47
Applying Cross-Functional Evolutionary Methodologies to Web Development....Pages 48-57
Development and Evolution of Web-Applications Using the WebComposition Process Model....Pages 58-76
Engineering the Web for Multimedia....Pages 77-89
Modelling Security Policies in Hypermedia and Web- Based Applications....Pages 90-104
Web-Based Information Systems Development - a User Centered Engineering Approach....Pages 105-118
Rapid Service Development: an Integral Approach to E-Business Engineering....Pages 119-132
Managing Information on the Web....Pages 133-134
Layout, Content and Logic Separation in Web Engineering....Pages 135-147
Restraining Content Explosion vs. Constraining Content Growth....Pages 148-155
A Classification of Web Adaptivity: Tailoring Content and Navigational Systems of Advanced Web Applications....Pages 156-169
Web Engineering: the Developers’ View and a Practitioner’s Approach....Pages 170-187
Development Tools, Skills and Case Studies....Pages 188-189
Synthesis of Web Sites from High Level Descriptions....Pages 190-203
Meta-XML Specification....Pages 204-212
Engineering of Two Web-Enabled Commercial Software Services....Pages 213-222
A Skills Hierarchy for Web-Based Systems Development....Pages 223-235
A Case Study of a Web-Based Timetabling System....Pages 236-244
Performance, Testing and Web Metrics....Pages 245-246
Engineering Highly Accessed Web Sites for Performance....Pages 247-265
Specifying Quality Characteristics and Attributes for Websites....Pages 266-278
A Framework for Defining Acceptance Criteria for Web Development Projects....Pages 279-294
Measurement and Effort Prediction for Web Applications....Pages 295-310
Web Navigability Testing with Remote Agents....Pages 311-323
Web Maintenance and Reuse....Pages 324-324
Improving Web-Site Maintenance with TANGOW by Making Page Structure and Contents Independent....Pages 325-334
Web Design Frameworks: An Approach to Improve Reuse in Web Applications....Pages 335-352

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Software Engineering; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Management of Computing and Information Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction