A component- and connector-based approach for end-user composite web applications development

Lizcano, David; Alonso, Fernando; Soriano, Javier; López, Genoveva

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2014.03.039

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“…For instance, the blue color refers to unmapped fields whereas other colors represent data mappings and static assignments. As another example, the tool developed by Lizcano et al [35] uses a form filling to allow users to edit the properties of visual components representing services.…”

Section: B Rq1-d2: Interaction Stylementioning

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Characterizing Visual Programming Approaches for End-User Developers: A Systematic Review

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Recently many researches have explored the potential of visual programming in robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and education. However, there is a lack of studies that analyze the recent evidence-based visual programming approaches that are applied in several domains. This study presents a systematic review to understand, compare, and reflect on recent visual programming approaches using twelve dimensions: visual programming classification, interaction style, target users, domain, platform, empirical evaluation type, test participants' type, number of test participants, test participants' programming skills, evaluation methods, evaluation measures, and accessibility of visual programming tools. The results show that most of the selected articles discussed tools that target IoT and education, while other fields such as data science, robotics are emerging. Further, most tools use abstractions to hide implementation details and use similar interaction styles. The predominant platforms for the tools are web and mobile, while desktop-based tools are on the decline. Only a few tools were evaluated with a formal experiment, whilst the remaining ones were evaluated with evaluation studies or informal feedback. Most tools were evaluated with students with little to no programming skills. There is a lack of emphasis on usability principles in the design stage of the tools. Additionally, only one of the tools was evaluated for expressiveness. Other areas for exploration include supporting end users throughout the life cycle of applications created with the tools, studying the impact of tutorials on improving learnability, and exploring the potential of machine learning to improve debugging solutions developed with visual programming.INDEX TERMS Visual programming, end-user development, human-computer interaction, systematic literature review.

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Section: B Rq1-d2: Interaction Stylementioning

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“…Additionally, the availability of separate sets of components for different application domains in the resource catalogue, and the separation of concerns between widgets and operators (where operators take care of most of the specificities of the application domain) also helps to cater for domain specificity (in the sense of [46]), i.e., how customizable the mashup tool is for specific requirements possibly emerging in specific domains.…”

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Implementation of end-user development success factors in mashup development environments

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Computer Standards & Interfaces

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The Future Internet is expected to be composed of a mesh of interoperable web services accessed from all over the Web. This approach has been supported by many software providers who have provided a wide range of mashup tools for creating composite applications based on components prepared by the respective provider. These tools aim to achieve the end-user development (EUD) of rich internet applications (RIA); however, most, having failed to meet the needs of end users without programming knowledge, have been unsuccessful. Thus, many studies have investigated success factors in order to propose scales of success factor objectives and assess the adequacy of mashup tools for their purpose. After reviewing much of the available literature, this paper proposes a new success factor scale based on human factors, human-computer interaction (HCI) factors and the specialization-functionality relationship. It brings together all these factors, offering a general conception of EUD success factors. The proposed scale was applied in an empirical study on current EUD tools, which found that today's EUD tools have many shortcomings. In order to achieve an acceptable success rate among end users, we then designed a mashup tool architecture, called FAST-Wirecloud, built taking into account the proposed EUD success factor scale. The results of a new empirical study carried out using this tool have demonstrated that users are better able to successfully develop their composite applications and that FAST-Wirecloud has scored higher than all the other tools under study on all scales of measurement, and particularly on the scale proposed in this paper.

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“…With these premises, we created a web component model that was more successful among EUPs because it adopted the above factors [45] and a tool that enabled users to create RIAs according to this model [46].…”

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“…This tool was designed and implemented from scratch to assure that the products built by using this environment conform to the described model [20]. We described two experiments to demonstrate that EzWeb was suitable for users without programming skills and helped them to build web solutions to a particular problem that they were set elsewhere [43,45,46]. In this study, we report an experiment addressing a broader set of problems of increasing complexity in order to address the goodness of the model.…”

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Web-centred end-user component modelling

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Soriano

et al. 2016

Future Generation Computer Systems

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A B S T R A C TThis paper formally defines a web component model enabling end-user programmers to build component-based rich internet applications (RIAs) that are tailored to meet their particular needs. It is the product of a series of previously published papers. The formal definition in description logic verifies that the model is consistent and subsumes currently existing models. We demonstrate experimentally that it is more effective than the others.Current tools propose very disparate web component models, which are based on the appropriate invocation of service backends, overlooking user needs in order to exploit these services and resources in a friendly manner. We have proposed a web model based on a detailed study of existing tools, their pros and cons, limitations and key success factors that have enabled other web end-user development (WEUD) solutions to help end-user programmers to build software to support their needs. In this paper we have verified that the proposed model subsumes and is instantiated by the models of the other existing tools that we analysed, coming a step closer to the standardization of end-user centred RIAs and development environments. We have implemented a development tool, called EzWeb, to produce RIAs that implement the proposed model. This tool enables users to develop their application following the model's component structure based on end-user programming success factors. We report a statistical experiment in which users develop increasingly complex web software using the EzWeb tool generating RIAs that conform to the proposed component model, and other WEUD tools generating RIAs that conform to other models. This experiment confirms the applicability of the proposed model and demonstrates that more end-user programmers (EUPs) (users concerned with programming primarily for personal rather public use) successfully develop web solutions for complex problems using the EzWeb tool that implements the model, which is more efficient than existing tools that implement other models.

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A component- and connector-based approach for end-user composite web applications development

Cited by 13 publications

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Characterizing Visual Programming Approaches for End-User Developers: A Systematic Review

Characterizing Visual Programming Approaches for End-User Developers: A Systematic Review

Implementation of end-user development success factors in mashup development environments

Web-centred end-user component modelling

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