Foreword of the Thematic Track: Quality in Web Engineering

Abstract

HE 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, Web applications exhibit complex behaviour and place some unique requirements on their ubiquitous usability, performance, security and ability to grow and evolve. Web development can benefit from established practices from other related disciplines, but it has some distinguishing characteristics that are mainly due to its inherent multidisciplinary, encompassing contributions from diverse areas. In addition, due to the advent of new technologies, novel development practices have become possible, for example based on the paradigm of Web Mashups, also offering the possibility of defining advanced user interface mechanisms enhancing the user experience.