Comparative Study of Web Development Methodologies

The growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web has already had a significant impact on almost every aspect of personal and professional life. In this fast moving world, web applications are developed with little or no consideration to security in its development cycle. Moreover, web applications are developed using traditional software development methodologies and by less experienced developers and in result most of the web applications are vulnerable to attacks. This paper discusses special features of web applications that make them different from traditional development and also compares the existing web methodologies.