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Engineering Web Applications

  • First comprehensive and product-independent presentation of Web applications engineering
  • Covers the whole application lifecycle from requirements engineering to deployment and maintenance
  • Relates Web-specific development processes to traditional software development approaches
  • Ideal for classes on Web application development, Web engineering, or Web information systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Data-Centric Systems and Applications (DCSA)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-11
  2. Introduction

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 1-8
  3. Technologies

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 9-55
  4. The Development Process

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 57-79
  5. Requirements Engineering

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 81-114
  6. Web Application Design

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 115-174
  7. Adaptation

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 175-222
  8. Implementation, Deployment, and Maintenance

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 223-253
  9. Quality Assessment

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 255-292
  10. Semantic Web and Web 2.0

    • Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog, Maristella Matera
    Pages 293-316
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 1-32

About this book

Nowadays, Web applications are almost omnipresent. The Web has become a platform not only for information delivery, but also for eCommerce systems, social networks, mobile services, and distributed learning environments. Engineering Web applications involves many intrinsic challenges due to their distributed nature, content orientation, and the requirement to make them available to a wide spectrum of users who are unknown in advance. The authors discuss these challenges in the context of well-established engineering processes, covering the whole product lifecycle from requirements engineering through design and implementation to deployment and maintenance. They stress the importance of models in Web application development, and they compare well-known Web-specific development processes like WebML, WSDM and OOHDM to traditional software development approaches like the waterfall model and the spiral model. .

Reviews

From the reviews: “This well-written book describes each step of the Web application development process. It covers abstractions, methods, tools, models, and concepts that will give readers a global perspective … . it is suitable for students as a complete overview of Web development, its figures, illustration, and language are quite complex, making it appropriate for an advanced academic audience. … In conclusion, this complete, nontechnical guidebook can be used by academics and advanced students as a generalized approach to Web application engineering.” (Athena Vakali, ACM Computing Reviews, December, 2009)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Sven Casteleyn

  • Dipto. Ingegneria e Scienza, Università di Trento, Povo, Italy

    Florian Daniel

  • Forschungszentrum L3S, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Peter Dolog

  • Dipto. Elettronica e Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Maristella Matera

About the authors

Sven Casteleyn is a post-doc researcher at the Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. His research interests lie primarily within the field of Web Engineering and the Semantic Web technologies.

Florian Daniel is a post-doc researcher at the University of Trento, Italy. His main research interests are in Web engineering, UI integration, mashups, and business process intelligence.

Peter Dolog is an associate professor of computer science in the Information Systems Unit at the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark, where he leads the IWIS: Intelligent Web and Information Systems group. His research interests are in intelligent web and information systems, which includes adaptive hypertext and hypermedia, user modelling, personalization, web based systems, web services, software product lines and technology enhanced learning.

Maristella Matera is assistant professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her current research focuses on Web Engineering, with particular emphasis on design methods and tools for Web application development, and concentrates on context-awareness, Web-based cooperative processes for e-learning, component integration at the presentation level, Web usage analysis, usability and accessibility.

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eBook USD 54.99
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Softcover Book USD 69.95
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 89.99
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