Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE2004)
Original Kurzfassung:
Modern Web applications are full-fledged, complex software systems.
Therefore, the development of Web applications requires a methodologically
sound engineering approach called Web Engineering. It is not clear, however,
to which extent existing solutions from relevant areas, most notably software
engineering can be reused as such for the development of Web applications
and consequently, if Web Engineering is really a discipline on its own.
This paper highlights the characteristics of Web application development as
found in existing literature thus providing a prerequisite for analyzing the appropriateness
of existing engineering solutions. The characteristics are categorized
according to four dimensions, comprising the software product itself, its
development, its use and evolution as a cross-cutting concern.
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