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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bridging Test and Model-Driven Approaches in Web Engineering
In the last years there has been a growing interest in agile methods and their integration into the so called “unified” approaches. In the field of Web Engineering, agile approaches such as test-driven develop...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Capture and Evolution of Web Requirements Using WebSpec
Develo** Web applications is a complex and time consuming process that involves different kind of people, ranging from customers to developers. Requirement artefacts play an important role as they are used b...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Mockups to User Interface Models: An Extensible Model Driven Approach
Sketching web applications with mockup tools is a common practice that improves the process of elicitation and validation of requirements in web applications. However, mockups are used as a “quick and dirty” w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Incremental Approach for Building Accessible and Usable Web Applications
Building accessible Web applications is difficult, moreover considering the fact that they are constantly evolving. To make matters more critical, an application which conforms to the well-known W3C accessibil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Interface Mockups to Web Application Models
The process of modeling and implementing Web applications has been successfully improved by the use of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) methodologies. However, because of their traditional process models, t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Agile Model-Driven Web Engineering
The increasing growth of the Web field has promoted the development of a plethora of Model-Driven Web Engineering (MDWE) approaches. These methodologies share a top-down approach: they start by modeling applic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
From Requirements to Web Applications in an Agile Model-Driven Approach
Web applications are hard to build not only because of technical reasons but also because they involve many different kinds of stakeholders. Involving customers in the development process is a must, not only w...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MockAPI: An Agile Approach Supporting API-first Web Application Development
In the last years, agile development methodologies have been widely adopted. However, they still lack support for API requirements while, at the same time, public RESTful APIs are fueling a rapid growth of web...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Tool for Detecting Bad Usability Smells in an Automatic Way
The refactoring technique helps developers to improve not only source code quality, but also other aspects like usability. The problems refactoring helps to solve in the specific field of web usability are con...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Extensible, Model-Driven and End-User Centric Approach for API Building
The implementation of APIs in new applications is becoming a mandatory requirement due to the increasing use of cloud-based solutions, the necessity of integration with ubiquitous applications (like Facebook o...
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Article
Improving accessibility of Web interfaces: refactoring to the rescue
Universal access should be a target for all public Web sites. However, it is very hard to achieve, and even Web applications that comply with accessibility standards may still lack usability for disabled user...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
UX Challenges in GDSS: An Experience Report
In this paper we present a user experience report on a Group Decision Support System. The used system is a Collaborative framework called GRoUp Support (GRUS). The experience consists in three user tests condu...
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Article
DataMock: An Agile Approach for Building Data Models from User Interface Mockups
In modern software development, much time is devoted and much attention is paid to the activity of data modeling and the translation of data models into databases. This has motivated the proposal of different ...
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Article
Dynamic detection of accessibility smells
Automatic detection of accessibility problems is mainly performed by checking for compliance with guidelines on the HTML structure of web pages. While this method can find many problems, it has limitations in ...