Web Engineering Requirements in Web Application Development

Web applications are considered complex applications, and, as such, they deal with a lot of interlaced concerns which can be divided into functional and nonfunctional requirements, for example, simultaneous access, response time, etc. Thus, to create a good working web application, with little margin for errors, one has to have a well structured development system that can create an application with no functional errors. The other issue to be considered in the area of web application development is the time to market, as a constant battle to produce in the less time possible. Hence, web application development is often standardized by workflows, with aid of patterns, Use Case Scenarios, sometimes even using metamodels. The objective of this paper is to show the different options when developing web applications and the upsides and downsides of each of them, and how combining them can result in a more efficient solution.