The next generation of Web-based systems and applications poses challenges to everyone who will build them. The “old school” approach to website development-an approach that relies almost exclusively on a combination of informality, urgency, intuition, and art-is being replaced by a more pragmatic Web engineering process.

Web Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach has been written to provide you with an understanding of an agile and adaptable approach to the development of next generation WebApps-systems that are more complex, more functional, and more significant than any that exist today.

The book will provide you with the tools you'll need to implement a Web engineering process within your organization. It will help you to understand the technical methods that will lead to high quality WebApps produced in a minimum of time. The book has been written in an informal, conversational style, using a question and answer format to mentor you in this new engineering discipline. A running case study is used to examine important concepts and illustrate critical management and technical methods. It covers every important aspect of a WebApp development, the book presents proven methods for requirements gathering and analysis, design, testing, project planning, change and content management.

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