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Reverse Engineering End-user Developed Web Applications into a Model-based Framework

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dc.contributor.authorBhardwaj, Yogitaen
dc.contributor.committeechairPérez-Quiñones, Manuel A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberNorth, Christopher L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberAbrams, Marcen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:38:21Zen
dc.date.adate2005-06-16en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:38:21Zen
dc.date.issued2005-05-09en
dc.date.rdate2005-06-16en
dc.date.sdate2005-05-23en
dc.description.abstractThe main goal of this research is to facilitate end-user and expert developer collaboration in the creation of a web application. This research created a reverse engineering toolset and integrated it with Click (Component-based Lightweight Internet-application Construction Kit), an end-user web development tool. The toolset generates artifacts to facilitate collaboration between end-users and expert web developers when the end-users need to go beyond the limited capabilities of Click. By supporting smooth transition of workflow to expert web developers, we can help them in implementing advanced functionality in end-user developed web applications. The four artifacts generated include a sitemap, text documentation, a task model, and a canonical representation of the user interface. The sitemap is automatically generated to support the workflow of web developers. The text documentation of a web application is generated to document data representation and business logic. A task model, expressed using ConcurTaskTrees notation, covers the whole interaction specified by the end-user. A presentation and dialog model, represented in User Interface Markup Language (UIML), describe the user interface in a declarative language. The task model and UIML representation are created to support development of multi-platform user interfaces from an end-user web application. A formative evaluation of the usability of these models and representations with experienced web developers revealed that these representations were useful and easy to understand.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05232005-144650en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05232005-144650/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33150en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartYogitab_Thesis_Final.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectReverse Engineeringen
dc.subjectModel-based approachen
dc.subjectEnd-user programmingen
dc.subjectWeb application developmenten
dc.subjectUser Interface toolsen
dc.titleReverse Engineering End-user Developed Web Applications into a Model-based Frameworken
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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