Assessing a Web Engineering Method in Practice: a Preliminary Analysis for Personal Genomics Portals

Over fifteen years of academic research in Web Engineering resulted in sound engineering principles and full-fledged design methods for Web applications. Nevertheless, the community suffers a lack of industrial adoption and a lack of validation of the methods in realistically sized modern Web applications. This paper addresses this hiatus and presents an experience report on the application of OOWS 2.0, a state-of-the-art Web engineering method, on two real-life complex Web applications in the Personal Genomics field. Based on this analysis, we verify the technical completeness of the method, gather information about its use, identify shortcomings and present some improvements.

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