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Web engineering
Preface Since its original inception the Web has changed into an environment employed for the delivery of many different types of applications, ranging from small-scale information-dissemination-like applications, typically developed by writers and artists, to large-scale commercial, enterpriseplanning and scheduling, collaborative-work applications. Numerous current Web applications are fully functional systems that provide businessto- customer and business-to-business e-commerce, with numerous services to numerous users. As the reliance on larger and more complex Web applications increases so does the need for using methodologies/standards/best practice guidelines to develop applications that are delivered on time, within budget, have a high level of quality and are easy to maintain. To develop such applications Web development teams need to use sound methodologies, systematic techniques, quality assurance, rigorous, disciplined and repeatable processes, better tools, and baselines. Web engineering aims to meet such needs. The focus of this book is to provide its audience with the fundamental concepts necessary to better engineer Web applications, and also present a set of case studies where these concepts are applied to real industrial scenarios. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to Web engineering and discusses its differences and similarities to software engineering. Ten chapters are used to introduce concepts (e.g. cost estimation, productivity assessment, usability measurement) and details on how to apply each concept to a practical situation. Another three chapters provide readers with introductions to statistical techniques and empirical methods. There is no other book in the market that examines Web engineering in such breadth and with a practical emphasis. In terms of its audience, this book is of considerable benefit for Web practitioners and graduate students. Practitioners can immediately grasp the usefulness and benefits of Web engineering principles since all case studies describe real situations that can also be similar to their own practices. Graduate students and researchers are provided a great opportunity to study Web engineering and to see its application relative to concrete examples.