An approach to the specification of user interface templates for business applications

Assisted Tasks to Generate Pre-prototypes for Web Information Systems

“…However, we propose the generation of a mockup using model transformation templates, while authors report to manually design mockups. Similarly, Aquino et al (2010) proposed to generate UIs with templates and Ristić et al (2012) go one step further by including a tool to design UI templates used in source code construction. However, while we generate mockups as models composed of annotated UI components, which specify semantics about actions (e.g.…”

“…However, while we generate mockups as models composed of annotated UI components, which specify semantics about actions (e.g. to retrieve some information from a database using queries specified as tagged values in a UI layout structure for CRUD: Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete), Aquino et al (2010) and Ristić et al (2012) generate only simple UI components that cannot be used to generate other layers than the view and controller. Besides, such proposal do not integrate UI components with UML artifacts, an improvement that authors suggested as future works.…”

“…Such term is discussed in Georgiades and Andreou (2012) as a natural language to classify use case model elements as standard types of functionalities and, more related with preprototypes, in Planas et al (2009) as means to generate/execute pieces of applications through widely detailed models designed with Unified Modelling Language (UML) (Booch et al, 2005). In addition, to quickly produce mockups, Ristić et al (2012) propose to generate UIs with templates. Although being important to design pre-prototypes, none of aforementioned contributions discussed about their implications in real world software projects that requires the use of some agile method (Dyba and Dingsoyr, 2009).…”