A Historical Perspective of Web Engineering

Abstract

As Web-based information systems and applications have been growing more and more complex, the concept of “Web engineering” begins to prevail. Generally, Web engineering refers to a field concerned about the employment of systematic and disciplined approaches to the development and management of Web sites and Web applications (Lowe, 1999; Murugesan, Deshpande, Hansen, & Ginige, 1999). It utilizes diverse principles from multiple disciplines including hypermedia, software engineering, human computer interaction, conceptual modeling, information retrieval, networking, etc.