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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Web Engineering and Metrics
Author : Emilia Mendes
Published in: New Directions in Web Data Management 1
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The objective of this chapter is three-fold. First, it provides an introduction to Web Engineering, and discusses the need for empirical investigations in this area. Second, it defines concepts such as metrics and measurement, and details the types of quantitative metrics that can be gathered when carrying out empirical investigations in Web Engineering. Third, it presents the three main types of empirical investigations – surveys, case studies, and formal experiments.