Pressman Software Engineering Resources: Web Engineering Process

IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce
The IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce provides a wide array of strategic guidance for entry into the e-commerce domain, a precursor to WebE.

Web engineering
An introduction at Wikipedia.

Web Engineering
An introductory white paper on the subject.

pdf: Web Engineering: Introduction and Perspectives
A chapter length introduction to the subject by San Murugesan and Athula Ginige. Recommended.

Webengineering.org
A portal to all things in the WebE area.

What ever happened to Web engineering?
A commentary on software engineering best practices for Web developers

pdf: Web Engineering - Old Wine in New Bottles?
"This paper highlights the characteristics of Web application development as found in existing literature thus providing a prerequisite for analyzing the appropriateness of existing engineering solutions." Recommended.

A Technology 'Cloud' for Web Engineering
The site presents a topic cloud that indicates at least some of the technology elements that become part of the Web engineering construction activity.

pdf: Web Engineering Revisited
"This paper proposes to reposition Web engineering to be more specific to what the Web is, by which we mean not only an interface technology, but an information system, into which Web-oriented applications have to be embedded."

pdf: Web engineering for mobile devices
A lengthy paper addressing one of the fasting growing and challenging areas of WebApp development.

Software Engineering for Internet Applications
A complete textbook by Eve Andersson, Philip Greenspun, and Andrew Grumet is provided online. The book was published by MIT Press in 2006. A useful resource.

Applying Software Engineering Principles to a Web Site Development Process
From the paper: "The goal of a web site development process is to formalize activities related to the development of web sites. The formalization of a development process aims at providing developers with a set of mechanisms which, when applied systematically, make it easier to obtain web sites of consistently high quality, in a predictable and reliable way."

WebE-Standards, Guidelines, & Patterns
Presents points to dozens of article on WebE related topics.

Web Engineering: Introduction and Perspectives (PDF)
An excellent, downloadable chapter that provides a good introduction and perspectives on Web Engineering. Highly recommended.

NASA WebApp Best Practices
NASA has developed a wide array of guidelines for Web site development. This page is a good starting point.

Cal State WebApp Best Practices
An overview of WebApp best practices developed by Cal State University.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
W3C is an industry consortium that provides access to a wide variety of WWW information of interest to WebApp developers.

e-Commerce Solution
Software tools that enable accurate quotes and orders for complex products and services; execution of complex pricing rules and generate quote/proposal documents, and other features. Presents a number of whitepapers and other resources.

Best Practices
Discusses process and practices used within an industry WebE environment.

NIST WebMetrics Testbed
"The objective of the NIST Web Metrics Testbed is to explore the feasibility of a range of tools and techniques that support rapid, remote, and automated testing and evaluation of website usability."

Dozens of sites offer help in developing business value metrics, e.g., measures of how many people visit a site , what pages are accessed, and other business specific information. The following sites are representative:

CyberAtlas
Internet.com
Nielsen/NetRatings
NUA Internet Surveys
Statmarket

There are many book that discuss the World Wide Web characteristics, directions and potential. Here is a very small sample:

In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace is (from a review) "a fresh, insightful, and eminently readable look at cyberspace policy" set during Thomas Jefferson's time.
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web presents "a unifed theory of the Web.
Web Without a Weaver: How the Internet Is Shaping Our Future is an early treatment that explores the "meaning" of the Internet.
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide addresses business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations.
Collective Intelligence in Action discusses "leveraging the collective power of user contributions, interactions, and feedback is the key to market dominance."

Hundreds of books that discuss one or more Web engineering topics have been published in recent years, although relatively few address all aspects of Web engineering. We prefer:

Web Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach by Pressman and Lowe which considers the Web engineering process in its entirety.

But in addition, the following books are worth considering:

Web Engineering is an anthology of contributed papers on WebE.
Web Engineering: Principles and Techniques provides a reasonably thorough treatment of many WebE topics.
Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications focuses on techncial aspects of WebApp development.

Foundations of Web Technology presents a worthwhile compilation of the technologies that are required for Web engineering.
Web Engineering: Managing Diversity and Complexity of Web Development is a collection of useful papers on WebE. Proceedings of international conferences on Web Engineering
Web Business Engineering discusses business analysis and related concerns that enable the Web engineer to better understand customer needs.
Engineering Global E-commerce Sites present guidelines for the development of global WebApps.
Hypermedia and the Web: An Engineering Approach provides reasonably complete coverage.
Application Re-engineering: Building Web-based Applications and Dealing with Legacy Systems addresses one of the most difficult issues in WebE—the re-engineering of legacy systems to make them compatible with Web-based systems.
IEEE Std. 2001-1999 defines basic Web engineering practices.

There are many book that address Web metrics, but virtually all focus on Web site related measures. Anong the offering are:

Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics
Web Metrics: Proven Methods for Measuring Web Site Success
Capacity Planning for Web Performance: Metrics, Models, & Methods