Web Engineering - Kappel

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Auteur(s) : Kappel - Pröll - Reich

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 31/05/2006

Nombre de pages : 388

Expédition : 668

Dimensions : 24.4 x 17.0 x 2.1

ISBN : 0470015543

Résumé :
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.

This book presents a new discipline called Web Engineering taking a rigorous interdisciplinary approach to the development of Web applications, covering Web development concepts, methods, tools and techniques. It highlights the need to examine and re-use the body of knowledge found within software engineering and demonstrates how to use that knowledge within the Web environment, putting emphasize on current practices, experiences and pitfalls.

The book 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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Biographie:
Gerti Kappel is full professor of Business Informatics at Vienna University of Technology.

Birgit Pr?ll 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.

Sommaire:

Preface xv

Foreword xvii

1 An Introduction to Web Engineering 1
Gerti Kappel, Birgit Pr?ll, Siegfried Reich, Werner Retschitzegger

1.1 Motivation 1

1.2 Categories of Web Applications 4

1.3 Characteristics of Web Applications 7

1.3.1 Product-related Characteristics 8

1.3.2 Usage-related Characteristics 12

1.3.3 Development-related Characteristics 14

1.3.4 Evolution 16

1.4 Objectives and Structure of the Book 17

2 Requirements Engineering for Web Applications 23
Paul Gr?nbacher

2.1 Introduction 23

2.2 Fundamentals 24

2.2.1 Where Do Requirements Come From? 24

2.2.2 Requirements Engineering Activities 25

2.3 RE Specifics in Web Engineering 26

2.4 Principles for RE of Web Applications 30

2.5 Adapting RE Methods to Web Application Development 32

2.5.1 Requirement Types 32

2.5.2 Notations 34

2.5.3 Tools 36

2.6 Outlook 37

3 Modeling Web Applications 39
Wieland Schwinger, Nora Koch

3.1 Introduction 39

3.2 Fundamentals 40

3.3 Modeling Specifics in Web Engineering 41

3.3.1 Levels 41

3.3.2 Aspects 42

3.3.3 Phases 42

3.3.4 Customization 43

3.4 Modeling Requirements 43

3.5 Content Modeling 45

3.5.1 Objectives 45

3.5.2 Concepts 45

3.6 Hypertext Modeling 46

3.6.1 Objectives 47

3.6.2 Hypertext Structure Modeling Concepts 47

3.6.3 Access Modeling Concepts 49

3.6.4 Relation to Content Modeling 50

3.7 Presentation Modeling 51

3.7.1 Objectives 51

3.7.2 Concepts 51

3.7.3 Relation to Hypertext Modeling 52

3.8 Customization Modeling 53

3.8.1 Objectives 54

3.8.2 Concepts 54

3.8.3 Relation to Content, Hypertext, and Presentation Modeling 58

3.9 Methods and Tools 58

3.9.1 Modeling Methods: An Overview 58

3.9.2 Model-Driven Development 61

3.9.3 Tool Support 61

3.10 Outlook 63

4 Web Application Architectures 65
Christian Eichinger

4.1 Introduction 65

4.2 Fundamentals 66

4.2.1 What is an Architecture? 66

4.2.2 Developing Architectures 67

4.2.3 Categorizing Architectures 69

4.3 Specifics of Web Application Architectures 70

4.4 Components of a Generic Web Application Architecture 71

4.5 Layered Architectures 72

4.5.1 2-Layer Architectures 72

4.5.2 N-Layer Architectures 73

4.6 Data-aspect Architectures 79

4.6.1 Database-centric Architectures 80

4.6.2 Architectures for Web Document Management 80

4.6.3 Architectures for Multimedia Data 81

4.7 Outlook 84

5 Technology-aware Web Application Design 85
Gerhard Austaller, Andreas Hartl, Markus Lauff, Fernando Lyardet, Max M?hlha?ser

5.1 Introduction 86

5.2 Web Design from an Evolutionary Perspective 89

5.2.1 Background 89

5.2.2 Information Design: An Authoring Activity 90

5.2.3 Software Design: A Programming Activity 92

5.2.4 Merging Information Design and Software Design 93

5.2.5 Problems and Restrictions in Integrated Web Design 94

5.2.6 A Proposed Structural Approach 95

5.3 Presentation Design 95

5.3.1 Presentation of Nodes and Meshes 96

5.3.2 Device-independent Development Approaches 97

5.4 Interaction Design 98

5.4.1 User Interaction 98

5.4.2 User Interface Organization 100

5.4.3 Navigation Design 101

5.4.4 Designing a Link Representation: The Anchor 101

5.4.5 Designing Link Internals: The URL 102

5.4.6 Navigation and Orientati...