Hybrid Web Engineering Process Model for the Development of Large Scale Web Applications

Many web development models had been proposed in the literature and there are few studies related to proposing models for developing large web applications. It is important to construct a model that lead to large web applications development with minimum likelihood of failure. A Hybrid web engineering process model for large web development enterprises has been proposed in this research. This model focuses on overall development process phases and consists of many activities: division of large web application into many small sub applications; division of large number of developers into many sub teams; identify a management team to control the development process; Stakeholders’ and customers’ inclusion and feedback during development process; requirement analysis and management; adopting the Spiral model by management team; adopting the Throwaway Prototype, XP agile method, Web Engineering process model by each sub team; conducting CMMI levels key process areas; conducting web engineering practices and SQA activities; and training developers on CMMI and web engineering practices. An evaluation of this model according to CMMI process areas has been conducted in this research. This evaluation has been carried out by many professional developers currently working in many large webdevelopment Jordanian enterprises. The evaluation results shows that the Hybrid model highly satisfied each of CMMI level2 and CMMI level3, medium satisfaction of CMMI level4, and finally low satisfaction of CMMI level5.