Web engineering: a new emerging discipline

Web engineering, an emerging new discipline, advocates a process and a systematic approach to development of high quality Web based systems. In contrast the commercial practice still remains ad-hoc. Although the Web based systems has become increasingly complex, the development process is still un-engineered. "There are very few standard methods for the Web developers to use. Hence, there is a strong need to understand and undertake Web engineering ". (Y. Deshpande and M. Gaedke, 2005) This paper is a result of our extensive survey of literature, our work and interaction with developers. This paper gives an introductory overview on Web engineering, it assesses similarities and differences between development of traditional software and Web based systems, and reviews some of the ongoing work in this area. We discuss the need for development of process model for Web based applications (WBA). such as is available far conventional software, with an overview of our work on development of such a process framework (R. Ahmad, et al, 2005). This paper also attempts to highlight the areas that need further study.