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Mendes, E. (2008). The Need for Empirical Web Engineering: An Introduction. In: Rossi, G., Pastor, O., Schwabe, D., Olsina, L. (eds) Web Engineering: Modelling and Implementing Web Applications. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-923-1_14
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