Web Engineering:Principles and Techniques

Since the advent of the Web, every aspect of our lives and organizational activities has changed dramatically. Organizations’ expectations and dependencies on the use of Web technologies have increased rapidly over the years. Most organizations have conceived these Web technologies as a critical instrument for enhancing their performance; they have made every effort to develop, use, and maintain Web-based applications successfully. Nevertheless, such efforts are faced with various complexity and diversity caused by the demands for not only developing large-scale systems but also extending their applications into various domains. In most cases, these challenges are handled in an ad hoc manner rather than systematically. This phenomenon is a result of the fact that the progress of development and maintenance processes of Web applications have not kept up sufficiently with the rapid expansion of the challenges.