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Web application development platform

The World Wide Web has become a major delivery platform for a variety of complex and sophisticated enterprise applications in several domains. In addition to their inherent multifaceted functionality, these Web applications exhibit complex behaviour and place some unique demands on their usability, performance, security, and ability to grow and evolve. However, a vast majority of these applications continue to be developed in an ad hoc way, contributing to problems of usability, maintainability, quality and reliability. While Web development can benefit from established practices from other related disciplines, it has certain distinguishing characteristics that demand special considerations. In recent years, there have been developments towards addressing these considerations. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Web engineeringA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Accessibility engineering in web evaluation process: a systematic literature reviewInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Advances in Computers, Volume 49 (Advances in Computers)The most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engineCited 9,376 times
  5. Go sideways: Tony WassermanA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Software engineeringA closely related topic

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