Title: Toward
an Assessment of Web Engineering Risks
Abstract: Organizations have significantly increased
their use and development of Web-based systems and applications. The complexity
of designing, developing, managing, and maintaining these systems have grown
considerably. Web engineering is the process used to create high-quality
Web-based systems and applications that deliver a complex array of content
and functionality to a broad population of end-users. Despite the introduction
of a wide variety of development tools and methods, web-based development
projects are plagued by costs overruns, time and unmet user requirements.
Based on the Web Engineering Process Model developed by Pressman and the
risk factor taxonomy proposed by Boehm, an integrative framework for Web
Engineering risk assessment is proposed. The results from our study imply
that organizations should incorporate risk assessment throughought the development
of Web-based applications. The paper discusses some of the managerial and
research implications of the findings.