Web Software Engineering Principles Questions

This is a list of topics/questions you might want to think about from a web software engineering standpoint.

• Can you describe a typical web application stack?
• Do you write code following any sort of coding standard? What do you use?
• How do you decide whether to 'build or buy' (or in the web world, to build or use open source)?
• What sort of version control systems have you used? What do you like/not like?
• Particularly for web applications, how do you handle data validation?
  • What sort of techniques do you use to validate data?
  • What should you validate?
  • At what level of the application stack should you validate data?
• What else do you do in order to make sure that your application is secure?
• Have you done any unit testing? What are some of the principles of writing a good unit test?