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Software process improvement seeks for better methods and techniques to develop quality products with reduced time. A prerequisite for this is to understand the current status and problems. In this paper we present a survey that gives an overall picture of the status in the development of Web-based systems. We investigated how the recognized best practice in the software community is employed in WebSys development, with respect to time-to-market and quality requirements – reliability and robustness. Data have been collected through questionnaires and interviews. Exploratory data analysis is used to discover patterns underlying data through successive iterations. Ten main findings are presented in three groups: features of the WebSys development projects, results related to time-to-market and use of engineering methods for reliability and robustness. Based on these findings, some key research areas are identified.
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Zhou, J., Stålhane, T. (2004). Web-Based System Development: Status in the Norwegian IT Organizations. In: Bomarius, F., Iida, H. (eds) Product Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24659-6_26
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