Improving End-User Programming with Situational Mashups in Web 2.0 Environment

Huang, Angus F. M.; Huang, Shin Bo; Lee, E.Y.F.; Yang, Stephen J. H.

doi:10.1109/sose.2008.56

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“…The advantage of rendering the application in a client's web browser is to give users the opportunity to interact with it. Mashups are popular because of their dynamic content creation and ability to build and share applications through publicly hosted repositories [45].…”

Section: Web Mashupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do Web-Active End-User Programmers Forage?

Kuttal¹,

Sedhain²,

Riethmeier³

2022

Coding Theory - Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications

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Web-active end-user programmers spend substantial time and cognitive effort seeking information while debugging web mashups, which are platforms for creating web applications by combining data and functionality from two or more different sources. The debugging on these platforms is challenging as end user programmers need to forage within the mashup environment to find bugs and on the web to forage for the solution to those bugs. To understand the foraging behavior of end-user programmers when debugging, we used information forging theory. Information foraging theory helps understand how users forage for information and has been successfully used to understand and model user behavior when foraging through documents, the web, user interfaces, and programming environments. Through the lens of information foraging theory, we analyzed the data from a controlled lab study of eight web-active end-user programmers. The programmers completed two debugging tasks using the Yahoo! Pipes web mashup environment. On analyzing the data, we identified three types of cues: clear, fuzzy, and elusive. Clear cues helped participants to find and fix bugs with ease while fuzzy and elusive cues led to useless foraging. We also identified the strategies used by the participants when finding and fixing bugs. Our results give us a better understanding of the programming behavior of web-active end-users and can inform researchers and professionals how to create better support for the debugging process. Further, this study methodology can be adapted by researchers to understand other aspects of programming such as implementing, reusing, and maintaining code.

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Section: Web Mashupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do Web-Active End-User Programmers Forage?

Kuttal¹,

Sedhain²,

Riethmeier³

2022

Coding Theory - Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications

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“…Huang et al . presented SituMash, a system that includes contextual representation, situational reasoning, workflow planning, and mashup optimizations. SituMash offers support for the automatic composition of widgets in response to situational changes without manual user selection.…”

Section: Rest‐based Mashup Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A systematic review of tools, languages, and methodologies for mashup development

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SUMMARYWeb 2.0 has become a powerful means of transmitting information in a number of fields, such as communication, e-commerce, and entertainment. Nowadays, companies and organizations transmit specific information through different mechanisms, such as Web feeds and Web services. These data sources enable third parties to incorporate data from service providers into their own applications. On the basis of this understanding, mashups have emerged as a new approach to develop applications and which combine data and resources from heterogeneous sources-such as internal data sources, Web feeds, screen scraping, and Web services-with the aim of solving specific needs. Mashup development involves activities such as accessing heterogeneous sources, combining data from different data sources, and building graphical interfaces. These activities restrict the development of these kinds of applications only to experienced computer users. Today, a number of tools and programming languages are used to help carry out some of the aforementioned activities. These tools and programming languages have features enabling the integration of different technologies in order to solve problems such as data management from different data sources and content publication. If this is taken into account, there is a growing need to learn about the features, advantages, and disadvantages of these tools and programming languages in order to select the tool or language that best fits a specific need and a specific level of knowledge and experience in terms of software development. This paper presents a systematic review and analysis of the tools, programming languages, and software development methodologies involved in mashup development in order to learn more about the features and services provided by mashups. Furthermore, this research also explains the qualitative and quantitative evaluation used for the mashup development tools. The evaluation was performed in order to measure not only the usability of these tools but also the support that they provide for standardized features of Web development that they provide. Finally, new trends in the development of mashups are discussed.

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“…SituMash is also an automatic creation mashup tool, create mashup in response to situation changes without user manual selection [18]. The dynamic changes in user situation configured in accessible widgets depend on user location and schedule.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Whip: A framework for mashup development with block-based development approach

Latih

Patel

Zin

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics

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The emerging of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies allows web users not only authoring and customizing web pages and their content but also integrating the contents of several web sites into one web page. This web integration is called web mashup. There are various End Users Programming development approaches in making mashup such as scripting, dataflow, widget, spreadsheet, and Programming By Demonstration (PBD). Whip design, as a tool lets casual usersthose without programming skill -do the mashup easily through Block-Based Programming (BBP) approach. The design of Whip is guided by a number of principles that support this goal; ranging from situational application, user's preference, User's skill level to code sharing. In this paper we expound the philosophy of Whip design and explain how the design of Whip supports those principles.

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Improving End-User Programming with Situational Mashups in Web 2.0 Environment

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

How Do Web-Active End-User Programmers Forage?

How Do Web-Active End-User Programmers Forage?

A systematic review of tools, languages, and methodologies for mashup development

Whip: A framework for mashup development with block-based development approach

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