Evaluation of Commercial Web Engineering Processes

Over the past five years a small number of specific commercial processes and evolutions to traditional software engineering processes for Web Engineering have been proposed. The existing Web engineering literature focuses mainly on techniques and tools that underpin the process of building Web applications, with little or no focus on the commercial suitability of the Web Engineering processes themselves. Based on our experience and surveys of Web engineering in practice, we have defined a set of essential criteria to be addressed by a commercial Web engineering process. In this paper we present a systematic evaluation of a sample of commercial Web engineering processes against these criteria. None of the commercial Web engineering processes evaluated addresses all the identified criteria. Ultimately to address the criteria for a Web engineering process there is a need for a different type of process.