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How is Web engineering related to Software engineering?

15th July 2013

My answer to How is Web engineering related to Software engineering? on Quora

I’d describe it as a subset of software engineering that deals with issues relating to the web—web application development, web protocols, browsers and so on.

Posted 15th July 2013 at 9:13 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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