Web Engineering: The Discipline of Systematic Development of Web Applications

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.


Spis treści:
Preface.
Foreword.
1.  An Introduction to Web Engineering (Gerti Kappel, Birgit Pröll, Siegfried Reich, Werner Retschitzegger).
2.  Requirements Engineering for Web Applications  (Paul Grünbacher).
3.  Modeling Web Applications  (Wieland Schwinger, Nora Koch).
4.  Web Application Architectures  (Christian Eichinger).
5 .  Technology–aware Web Application Design  (Gerhard Austaller, Andreas Hartl, Markus Lauff, Fernando Lyardet, Max Mühlhäuser).
6.  Technologies for Web Applications  (Martin Nussbaumer, Martin Gaedke).
7.  Testing Web Applications  (Christoph Steindl, Rudolf Ramler, Josef Altmann).
8.  Operation and Maintenance of Web Applications  (Arno Ebner, Birgit Pröll, Hannes Werthner).
9.  Web Project Management  (Herwig Mayr).
10.  The Web Application Development Process  (Gregor Engels, Marc Lohmann, Annika Wagner).
11.  Usability of Web Applications  (Martin Hitz, Gerhard Leitner, Rudolf Melcher).
12.  Performance of Web Applications  (Gabriele Kotsis).
13.  Security for Web Applications  (Martin Wimmer, Alfons Kemper, Stefan Seltzsam).
14.  The Semantic Web—The Network of Meanings in the Network of Documents  (Wernher Behrendt, Nitin Arora).
Glossary.
Author Biographies.
Bibliography.
Credits.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
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.

Okładka tylna:
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.< br>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.