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The World Wide Web has become a major delivery platform for a variety of complex and
sophisticated enterprise applications in several domains. In addition to their inherent multifaceted
functionality, these Web applications exhibit complex behaviour and place some unique demands
on their usability, performance, security, and ability to grow and evolve. However, a vast majority
of these applications continue to be developed in an ad-hoc way, contributing to problems of
usability, maintainability, quality and reliability.[1][2] While Web development can benefit from
established practices from other related disciplines, it has certain distinguishing characteristics
that demand special considerations. In recent years, there have been developments towards
addressing these considerations.

Web engineering focuses on the methodologies, techniques, and tools that are the foundation of
Web application development and which support their design, development, evolution, and
evaluation. Web application development has certain characteristics that make it different from
traditional software, information system, or computer application development.

Web engineering is multidisciplinary and encompasses contributions from diverse areas: systems
analysis and design, software engineering, hypermedia/hypertext engineering, requirements
engineering, human-computer interaction, user interface, information engineering, information
indexing and retrieval, testing, modelling and simulation, project management, and graphic design
and presentation. Web engineering is neither a clone nor a subset of software engineering,
although both involve programming and software development. While Web Engineering uses
software engineering principles, it encompasses new approaches, methodologies, tools,
techniques, and guidelines to meet the unique requirements of Web-based applications.

Contents
1 As a discipline

1.1 Modeling disciplines

1.2 Design disciplines, tools, and methods

1.3 Implementation disciplines

1.4 Testing disciplines

1.5 Applications categories disciplines

2 Attributes

2.1 Web quality

2.2 Content-related

3 Education

4 See also

5 References

6 Sources

6.1 Web engineering resources

As a discipline

Proponents of Web engineering supported the establishment of Web engineering as a discipline at

an early stage of Web. Major arguments for Web engineering as a new discipline are:

Web-based Information Systems (WIS) development process is different and unique.[3]

Web engineering is multi-disciplinary; no single discipline (such as software engineering) can

provide complete theory basis, body of knowledge and practices to guide WIS development.[4]

Issues of evolution and lifecycle management when compared to more 'traditional' applications.

Web-based information systems and applications are pervasive and non-trivial. The prospect of
Web as a platform will continue to grow and it is worth being treated specifically.

However, it has been controversial, especially for people in other traditional disciplines such as
software engineering, to recognize Web engineering as a new field. The issue is how different and
independent Web engineering is, compared with other disciplines.

Main topics of Web engineering include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Modeling disciplines
Business Processes for Applications on the Web

Process Modelling of Web applications

Requirements Engineering for Web applications

B2B applications

Design disciplines, tools, and methods

UML and the Web

Conceptual Modeling of Web Applications (aka. Web modeling)

Prototyping Methods and Tools

Web design methods

CASE Tools for Web Applications

Web Interface Design

Data Models for Web Information Systems

Implementation disciplines

Integrated Web Application Development Environments

Code Generation for Web Applications

Software Factories for/on the Web

Web 2.0, AJAX, E4X, ASP.NET, PHP and Other New Developments

Web Services Development and Deployment

Testing disciplines

Testing and Evaluation of Web systems and Applications.

Testing Automation, Methods, and Tools.

Applications categories disciplines

Semantic Web applications

Document centric Web sites

Transactional Web applications

Interactive Web applications

Workflow-based Web applications

Collaborative Web applications

Portal-oriented Web applications

Ubiquitous and Mobile Web Applications

Device Independent Web Delivery

Localization and Internationalization of Web Applications

Personalization of Web Applications

Attributes

Web quality

Web Metrics, Cost Estimation, and Measurement

Personalisation and Adaptation of Web applications

Web Quality

Usability of Web Applications

Web accessibility

Performance of Web-based applications

Content-related

Web Content Management

Content Management System (CMS)

Multimedia Authoring Tools and Software

Authoring of adaptive hypermedia

Education

Master of Science: Web Engineering as a branch of study within the MSc program Web Sciences at
the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria [5]

Diploma in Web Engineering: Web Engineering as a study program at the International

Webmasters College (iWMC), Germany [6]

See also

DevOps

Web developer

Web modeling

References

Pressman, Roger S (1998). "Can Internet Applications be Engineered?". IEEE Software. 15 (5): 104–
110. doi:10.1109/ms.1998.714869.
Roger S Pressman, "What a Tangled Web we Weave," IEEE Software, Jan/Feb 2001, Vol. 18, No.1,
pp 18-21

Gerti Kappel, Birgit Proll, Seiegfried, and Werner Retschitzegger, "An Introduction to Web
Engineering," in Web Engineering, Gerti Kappel, et al. (eds.) John Wiley and Sons, Heidelberg,
Germany, 2003

Deshpande, Yogesh; Hansen, Steve (2001). "Web Engineering: Creating Discipline among
Disciplines". IEEE Multimedia. 8 (1): 81–86. doi:10.1109/93.917974.

JKU » Webwissenschaften - Master. Jku.at (2014-04-18). Retrieved on 2014-04-28.

iWMC » Academic Program - Web Engineering. iWMC.at (2014-04-30). Retrieved on 2014-04-30.

Sources

Robert L. Glass, "Who's Right in the Web Development Debate?" Cutter IT Journal, July 2001, Vol.
14, No.7, pp 6–0.

S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, A. Bongio, M. Brambilla, S. Comai, M. Matera. "Designing Data-Intensive Web

Applications". Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, Dec 2002, ISBN 1-55860-843-5

Web engineering resources

Organizations

International Society for Web Engineering e.V.: http://www.iswe-ev.de/

Web Engineering Community: http://www.webengineering.org

WISE Society: http://www.wisesociety.org/

ACM SIGWEB: http://www.acm.org/sigweb

World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org

Books

"Engineering Web Applications", by Sven Casteleyn, Florian Daniel, Peter Dolog and Maristella
Matera, Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-92200-1

"Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications", edited by Gustavo Rossi,
Oscar Pastor, Daniel Schwabe and Luis Olsina, Springer Verlag HCIS, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84628-922-4

"Cost Estimation Techniques for Web Projects", Emilia Mendes, IGI Publishing, ISBN 978-1-59904-
135-3

"Web Engineering - The Discipline of Systematic Development of Web Applications", edited by

Gerti Kappel, Birgit Pröll, Siegfried Reich, and Werner Retschitzegger, John Wiley & Sons, 2006

"Web Engineering", edited by Emilia Mendes and Nile Mosley, Springer-Verlag, 2005

"Web Engineering: Principles and Techniques", edited by Woojong Suh, Idea Group Publishing,
2005
"Form-Oriented Analysis -- A New Methodology to Model Form-Based Applications", by Dirk
Draheim, Gerald Weber, Springer, 2005

"Building Web Applications with UML" (2nd edition), by Jim Conallen, Pearson Education, 2003

"Information Architecture for the World Wide Web" (2nd edition), by Peter Morville and Louis
Rosenfeld, O'Reilly, 2002

"Web Site Engineering: Beyond Web Page Design", by Thomas A. Powell, David L. Jones and
Dominique C. Cutts, Prentice Hall, 1998

"Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications", by S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, A. Bongio, M. Brambilla, S.

Comai, M. Matera. Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, Dec 2002, ISBN 1-55860-843-5

Conferences

World Wide Web Conference (by IW3C2, since 1994): http://www.iw3c2.org

International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) (since 2000)

2018: http://icwe2018.webengineering.org/ (Caceres, Spain)

2017: http://icwe2017.webengineering.org/ (Rome, Italy)

2016: http://icwe2016.webengineering.org/ (Lugano, Switzerland)

2007: http://www.icwe2007.org/

2006: http://www.icwe2006.org

2005: http://www.icwe2005.org

2004: http://www.icwe2004.org

ICWE Conference Proceedings

ICWE2007: LNCS 4607

https://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+&+information+retrieval/book/978
-3-540-73596-0

ICWE2005: LNCS 3579 https://www.springer.com/east/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=5-

40109-22-58872076-0

ICWE2004: LNCS 3140 https://www.springer.com/east/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=5-

40109-22-32445543-0

ICWE2003: LNCS 2722 https://www.springer.com/east/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=5-

40109-22-3092664-0

Web Information Systems Engineering Conference (by WISE Society, since 2000):
http://www.wisesociety.org/

International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (Webist) (since 2005):
http://www.webist.org/
International Workshop on Web Site Evolution (WSE): http://www.websiteevolution.org/

International Conference on Software Engineering: http://www.icse-conferences.org/

Book chapters and articles

Pressman, R.S., 'Applying Web Engineering', Part 3, Chapters 16-20, in Software Engineering: A
Practitioner's Perspective, Sixth Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004. http://www.rspa.com/'

Journals

Journal of Web Engineering: http://www.rintonpress.com/journals/jwe/

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology:

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=48

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology: http://toit.acm.org/

World Wide Web (Springer): https://link.springer.com/journal/11280

Web coding journal: http://www.web-code.org/

Special issues

Web Engineering, IEEE MultiMedia, Jan.–Mar. 2001 (Part 1) and April–June 2001 (Part 2).
http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLPublication.jsp?pubtype=m&acronym=mu

Usability Engineering, IEEE Software, January–February 2001.

Web Engineering, Cutter IT Journal, 14(7), July 2001.*

Testing E-business Applications, Cutter IT Journal, September 2001.

Engineering Internet Software, IEEE Software, March–April 2002.

Usability and the Web, IEEE Internet Computing, March–April 2002.