Web Engineering
A Discussion
D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
7th August 2009.
dhaval.dalal@software-artisan.com

Say what you feel!
Are you confident of delivering the subject
effectively?
Is the motivation behind introducing this subject
clear to you?
Did you interpret the scope of the syllabus coverage
correctly?
Were you involved in deciding the topics?
Do you believe that industry folks can be consulted
for syllabus coverage?

Statistics
Total Participants:10
Aspects YES NO
Course Delivery
7 3
Confidence?
Alignment with
8 3
Motivation?
Scope Clarity? 1 8
Personally
3 6
Involved?
Involve Industry
8 3
Experts?

What still bothers us?
What should we How are we supposed
focus on: Software to make students
Engg. aspect or the appreciate the
Web Tech. aspect? architectures without
students really
What should we knowing design
cover for practical principles?
sessions: Software
Engg. Aspect or Web Syllabus has implicit
Technologies? dependencies (pre-
requisites) to design
What level of depth before we teach
should these wide- architectures
ranging topics be
dealt with?

What still bothers us?
What would students
learn by visiting a
software development
center...this concept
is good for other
disciplines, but for
software industry
this idea of “Industry
Visit” does not hold
true

A Possible Approach for
Term-work
Take a project based What you teach in
approach class SHOULD be
reinforced during
Marry Software Engg practicals...one way
and Web Technology out is to take a
aspects in a project- hand-in-hand
oriented approach for approach for topics
the entire semester delivered in-class and
(theory and topics done during
practicals) practicals.

A Possible Approach for
Term-work
Choose a delivery Chop the slice such that
approach, i.e Waterfall or each sub-division becomes
any other SDLC or may be a term-work experiment
Agile spanning all the topics (to
comply with university
Slice the project or norms).
project modules based on
chosen delivery approach Evolve the slice in a
and allocate slices to a natural progression where
group of students. the first experiment is
elaborated by the next
and so on...until, the slice
is ready for delivery.

A Possible Approach for
Term-work
In short, iterate on Term-work success
the slice again and criteria: a project
again and go on that “RUNS” on “MY”
enriching it until machine.
deployment.
Either you decide the
Make sure to test project or let
each sub-division of students come-up
the slice. with project ideas,
but you need to be
Schedule and track consulted on the
each sub-division. decision.

Tools
Analysis and Modeling Test
Eclipse Plugins Unit Testing: JUnit,
TestNG
??
Tracking
Design and Code
Wiki, OpenOffice,
Eclipse, Netbeans Excel, MPP
or plain old
notepad/vi.
JUnit, TestNG

Participants
Narendra Sheokokar, Priyanka Desai, T.C.E.T
D.J.S.C.O.E
Bhagyashri Sonawale,
Khushali Deulkar, S.C.O.E, Khargar
D.J.S.C.O.E
Asha Rawat, P.V.P.P.C.O.E.
Chetan Mahajan,
P.V.P.P.C.O.E Sheetal Pereiza, K.J.S.C.E,
Vidyavihar
Chitra Bhole, K.J.S.I.E.I.T,
Sion Gopal Gupta, T.S.E.C
Hasmukh Sutar, Atharva Swati Ringe, F.R.C.R.C.E
College