Towards a technique for reverse engineering web transactions from a user's perspective

Distante, Damiano; Parveen, Tauhida; Tilley, Scott

doi:10.1109/wpc.2004.1311056

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“…In particular, business processes are reverse modeled by means of the UWAT+ Transaction design models. More details on the usage of UWAT+ for reverse engineering Web transactions are available in [6].…”

Section: The Reverse Engineering Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Redesigning legacy applications for the web with UWAT+

Distante

Tilley

Huang

2006

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering

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This paper reports on a case study of redesigning a legacy application for the Web using the Ubiquitous Web Applications Design Framework with an extended version of its Transaction Design Model (UWAT+). Web application design methodologies hold the promise of engineering high-quality and long-lived Web systems and rich Internet applications. However, many such techniques focus solely on green-field development, and do not properly address the situation of leveraging the value locked in legacy systems. The redesign process supported by UWAT+ holistically blends design recovery technologies for capturing the know-how embedded in the legacy application with forward design methods particularly well suited for Web-based systems. The case study highlights some of the benefits of using UWAT+ in this context, as well as identifying possible areas for improvement in the redesign process and opportunities for tool automation to support it.

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Section: The Reverse Engineering Phasementioning

confidence: 99%

Redesigning legacy applications for the web with UWAT+

Distante

Tilley

Huang

2006

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering

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“…Some others [15] allow abstracting a description of the functional requirements implemented by the WA which is cast into UML use case diagrams [16]. Some others else [17][18] recover UML class diagrams [16] of the application business objects and the logical relationships between them or models of the business processes implemented by the WA [7][8] [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

Recovering conceptual models from web applications

Lucca

Distante

Bernardi

2006

Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

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This paper proposes a reverse engineering approach for abstracting conceptual user-centered models from existing Web applications to re-document them at a high level of abstraction and from a user perspective.The recovered models are specified by referring to the Ubiquitous Web Application (UWA) design methodology. UWA models are able to describe the structure of the application contents, the semantic relations among contents, the different views on contents the application offers to users, and the navigation paths and the navigation nodes used to present contents to users.The approach exploits existing reverse engineering methods and tools to extract fine grained structural information from the analyzed applications and abstracts UWA models from them.The architecture of a tool to support the reverse engineering approach is described and the results from some preliminary experiments are discussed.

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“…The experience acquired in a number of case studies adopting UWA [12] Define which contents will be provided to the user in order to support the execution of a particular activity and which information objects are affected by the execution of the activity. 7.…”

Section: Requirements Of a Web Transaction Conceptual Design Meta-modelmentioning

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“…Such a meta-model would facilitate the design of Web Transactions that are closer to user expectations and have improved usability [12][13]. 2. be easy to create and easy to be read both by the client and the programmers who will develop the application.…”

Section: Requirements Of a Web Transaction Conceptual Design Meta-modelmentioning

confidence: 99%