Web Engineering

The focus of this book is on Web measurement and its application to industrial case studies. Each chapter presents different measurement-related concepts (e.g. cost estimation, productivity measurement, quality measurement) followed by their application to industrial case studies, plus advice on applying each technique to practical situations. No other book in the market examines Web measurement in such breadth and with such practical emphasis. Readers will quickly grasp the usefulness and benefits of measurement and metrics, since all case studies depict real-world situations.

No other book in the market examines Web measurement in such breadth and with such practical emphasis The presentation emphasizes and details both product and process metrics to allow sound quality conclusions All case studies depict real-world situations Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Dr. Emilia Mendes has worked in software development and management for 10 years, before obtaining her PhD and becoming a full-time academic in Computer Science at the University of Auckland, NZ. She is the principal investigator in the Tukutuku Research project, which aims to collect data about Web projects and use it to develop Web cost estimation models and to benchmark productivity across and within Web Companies. She is the director of the WETA (Web Engineering, Technology and Applications) research group. She has presented numerous lectures, conference presentations and workshops on Web cost estimation and chaired an industry workshop in January 2004 on Web cost estimation and productivity benchmarking (Auckland, NZ). She has provided consulting for Web companies on Web cost estimation, usability and process improvement. She is part of the organising committee for the 2005 International Conference on Web Engineering and is co-chairing a workshop on Web measurement and metrics at the 2005 World-Wide Web conference.

Dr. Nile Mosley is Director of MetriQ (NZ) Limited which specialises in the development of time and project management software tools. He has co-authored with Dr. Mendes several conference and journals papers on Web cost estimation and Web sizing.

Inhalt
The Need for Web Engineering: An Introduction.- Web Effort Estimation.- Web Productivity Measurement and Benchmarking.- Web Quality.- Web Usability: Principles and Evaluation Methods.- Web System Reliability and Performance.- Web Application Testing.- An Overview of Process Improvement in Small Settings.- Conceptual Modelling of Web Applications: The OOWS Approach.- Model-Based Web Application Development.- W2000: A Modelling Notation for Complex Web Applications.- What You Need To Know About Statistics.- Empirical Research Methods in Web and Software Engineering.