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

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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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  1. Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, LU1 3JU, UK

    Wei Huang & Carsten Maple

  2. Kingsmede House, Exxcom Ltd, Bedfordshire, SG17 5DB, UK

    Ru Li, David Foskett & Vince Cleaver

  3. Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

    Hong-Ji Yang

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Wei Huang received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from South China University of Technology, PRC, and the Ph. D. degree at Loughborough University, UK.

He worked as a research fellow at the University of Nottingham for three years before he joined the University of Bedfordshire, UK in 2004. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Bedfordshire. He is also a member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK.

His research interests include planning and scheduling, optimisation techniques, software, and web engineering.

Carsten Maple received the Ph.D. degree at the University of Leicester, UK, and joined the University of Bedfordshire, UK in March 1998 as a lecturer. He is then made senior lecturer in September 1998 and was promoted to professor of applicable computing in 2004. He became head of the Centre for Research in Distributed Technologies in June 2003 and he became head of the Department of Computer Science and Technology in September 2004. He serves as an editor and/or co-editor in a number of academic journals or conference proceedings such as Journal of Applied Informatics and Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation. He has chaired conferences such as International Conference Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering in 2010. He is an elected member of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) Committee.

His research interests include distributed system, information security, and optimisation techniques.

Hong-Ji Yang received the B. Sc. and M.Phil. degrees from Jilin University in 1982 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Durham University, UK in 1994. Currently, he is a professor at the Software Technology Research Laboratory, Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, UK and leads the Software Evolution and Reengineering Group. He served as a program co-chair at IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance in 1999 and the program chair at IEEE Computer Software and Application Conference in 2002.

His research interests include software engineering and pervasive computing.

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Huang, W., Li, R., Maple, C. et al. A novel lifecycle model for Web-based application development in small and medium enterprises. Int. J. Autom. Comput. 7, 389–398 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-010-0519-3

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