PUBLICATION
Web Engineering Revisited
Type
Conference Paper
Year
2008
Authors
Erik Wilde
Research Area
Event
British Computer Society (BCS) Conference on Visions of Computer Science
Published in
Proceedings of the British Computer Society (BCS) Conference on Visions of Computer Science
ISBN/ISSN
ISSN 1477-9358
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Abstract
We propose “Web Engineering 2.0” to not focus anymore on how to engineer for the Web, but how to engineer the Web. Web Engineering has become one of the core disciplines for building Web-oriented applications. This paper proposes to reposition Web engineering to be more specific to what theWeb is, by which we mean not only an interface technology, but an information system, into whichWeb-oriented applications have to be embedded. More traditional Web applications often are just user interfaces to data silos, whereas the last years have shown that well-designed Web-oriented applications can essentially start with no data, and derive all their value from being open and attracting users on a large scale. Such an approach to Web engineering not only leads to a more disciplined way of engineering the Web, it also allows computer science to better integrate the special properties of the Web, most importantly the loosely coupled nature of the Web, and the importance of the social systems driving the Web.
Reference
Wilde, Erik; Gaedke, Martin: Web Engineering Revisited. Proceedings of the British Computer Society (BCS) Conference on Visions of Computer Science, pp. 41-49, 2008.
