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A novel lifecycle model for Web-based application development in small and medium enterprises

  • Wei Huang
    ,
  • Ru Li
    ,
  • Carsten Maple
    ,
  • Hong-Ji Yang
    ,
  • David Foskett
    ,
  • Vince Cleaver
  • Exxcom Ltd
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Abstract

Software engineering’s lifecycle models have proven to be very important for traditional software development. However, can these models be applied to the development of Web-based applications as well? In recent years, Web-based applications have become more and more complicated and a lot of efforts have been placed on introducing new technologies such as J2EE, PhP, and.NET, etc., which have been universally accepted as the development technologies for Web-based applications. However, there is no universally accepted process model for the development of Web-based applications. Moreover, shaping the process model for small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which have limited resources, has been relatively neglected. Based on our previous work, this paper presents an expanded lifecycle process model for the development of Web-based applications in SMEs. It consists of three sets of processes, i.e., requirement processes, development processes, and evolution processes. Particularly, the post-delivery evolution processes are important to SMEs to develop and maintain quality web applications with limited resources and time.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 389-398

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

International Journal of Automation and Computing (Volume 7)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 18/08/2010

Publication status

Published - 18/08/2010

ISSN

1476-8186

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/250946
  • Scopus: 77955838658

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