Software Process for Dynamic Website Development: Practitioner's Perspective

Various sectors, such as industries, banking, travel, education, and government, moved towards the web as an improvement and enhancement to their businesses and services. Dynamic websites, which are considered as a type of web application, shall follow sound methodologies of development process to achieve quality and standard. However, previous studies have revealed that many websites which are available on the Internet do not fulfil the quality requirements to be considered as a successful quality website. This study investigates the current issues in dynamic website development including the methodologies; quality attributes, and processes for dynamic website development to achieve quality of the website as a product. This work also determines the factors that motivate developers to follow sound methodologies in developing the dynamic websites and the barriers of not following one. This paper presents the empirical investigation from practitioner's perspective. The findings of the empirical study will be applied in the development for dynamic website development model which focuses on attaining quality web products.