THE EVOLVING WEB DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE: A STAGE MODEL PROPOSITION

摘要

Over the past few years we have seen phenomenal growth in the use of the public infrastructure of the Internet and the World Wide Web as the delivery mechanisms for e-commerce applications. During that time, many Web sites evolved from simple information repositories to sophisticated front-end systems that interact with complicated back-end transaction processing systems. Along with this evolution, development tools, processes, and methodologies have changed also. Developers who used deceptively simple tools for rapid Web deployment in the early days of e-commerce have met reality in the form of changing business models, input from diverse stakeholders, and increasingly complex issues of performance, security, and extensibility over a distributed network. Organizations with major commitments to move beyond e-commerce and become fully network enabled have had to adapt processes and methodologies from the traditional systems development world. This research explores Web development methodologies in current practice and seeks to define a differentiated Web Development Life Cycle (WDLC) that incorporates the appropriate level of process to the evolving world of Web applications.