On "Web Engineering: Managing Diversity and Complexity of Web Application Development" (ed by S. Murugesan and Y. Deshpande)

Abstract

This book is one of the first (and certainly will not be the last) to attempt to define the scope of the emerging field of Web Engineering (WE). It is an outstanding collection of readings important to WE practitioners as well as anyone seeking to understand what WE is about. The editors have drawn extensively from their research experience in WE at the University of Western Sydney. Their research program was one of the first in the world to recognize the importance of WE and has provided a basis for other WE research. The editors were also responsible for initiating an ongoing successful series of tutorials and workshops on Web Engineering held at several International World Wide Web conferences and International Conferences on Software Engineering. A number of the contributions in this book originated at these workshops. The book is evolutionary in its organization beginning with a discussion of why a new field of Web Engineering is necessary. This is immediately followed by an argument to those critics of Software Engineering (SE) who would contend that SE (and therefore WE) is not truly an engineering discipline. After a description of the scope of WE as a multidisciplinary field, the book is now ready to discuss details.