The World Wide Web has a massive and permanent influence on our lives. Economy, industry, education, healthcare, public administration, entertainment - there is hardly any part of our daily lives which has not been pervaded by the Internet. Accordingly, modern Web applications are fully-fledged, complex software systems, and in order to be successful their development must be thorough and systematic. Web Engineering is the application of quantifiable approaches to the cost-effective requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, operation and maintenance of high quality Web applications. Web Engineers face the same traditional concerns as Software Engineers: the risks of failure to meet business needs, project schedule delays, budget overruns and poor quality of deliverables. But in the Web environment new and complicated issues demand attention, too. Web Engineering addresses the problems associated with shorter lead times which require rapid prototyping and agile methods, the interactivity and visual nature of the medium which make HCI aspects highly significant, and multimedia features of Web applications. This well-organized guide takes a rigorous interdisciplinary approach to Web Engineering, covering Web development concepts, methods, tools and techniques, and is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students on Web-focused or Software Engineering courses, as well as Web software developers, Web designers and project managers.

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Gerti Kappel is full professor of Business Informatics at Vienna University of Technology. Birgit Pröll teaches and researches at Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria. Siegfried Reich is director of Salzburg Research, the non-profit research organization owned by the County of Salzburg. Werner Retschitzegger is head of Department of Information Systems at JKU.

1. Web Engineering -- The Discipline for the Systematic Development of Web Applications 2. Requirements Engineering for Web Applications 3. Modelling of Web Applications 4. Architectures of Web Applications 5. Technology-Driven Design 6 Implementation Technologies for Web Applications 7. Testing of Web Applications 8. Operation and Maintenance of Web Applications 9. Web Project Management 10. Development Process of Web Applications 11. Usability of Web Applications 12. Performance of Web Applications 13. Security of Web Applications 14. The Semantic Web - The Network of Meanings in the Network of Documents