A Specification-Oriented Framework for Information System User Interfaces

Using Semantic Component Interfaces in Software Engineering Training

“…On the other hand, components developed with the COP approach are designed to enable a high level of reuse. The OOP and COP design approaches may, therefore, produce different sets of classes for the same application [9].…”

“…The problem of such a lab is that developing a system involves a considerable coding effort, i.e., most of the energies of the students in the lab will be in the coding and not in the development of the requirements and specifications, which are the principal topic of the lab. In order to save the students in our lab from doing a lot of programming that is not directly related to the specifications, we employed the specification-oriented (SO) WebSI framework [9] in our lab. A specification-oriented framework [9] is a framework that provides high-level programming abstractions, which ideally enable a direct translation of, say, an English language usecase specification into, e.g., JAVA code.…”

“…In order to save the students in our lab from doing a lot of programming that is not directly related to the specifications, we employed the specification-oriented (SO) WebSI framework [9] in our lab. A specification-oriented framework [9] is a framework that provides high-level programming abstractions, which ideally enable a direct translation of, say, an English language usecase specification into, e.g., JAVA code. WebSI meets this goal to some extent and should, therefore, be suitable for our lab.…”

A use case-oriented user interface framework

“…The components and methodology of the framework are designed to produce software architectures with some useful software engineering properties. The ¡ framework, introduced in [3,4], was thus designed to produce easy to verify architectures. It was designed by looking at state of the art software development processes, such as the Unified Software Development Process (USDP) [1].…”