Component-based technologies for end-user development

Mørch, Anders I.; Stevens, Gunnar; Won, Markus; Klann, Markus; Dittrich, Yvonne; Wulf, Volker

doi:10.1145/1015864.1015890

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“…Although the scientists in this study were no longer acting as professional end user developers, we feel that the study has its place in this paper, because the provision of a library of components is often mooted as a means by which software engineers might support professional end user developers, see, for example [8] and [9]. This study made it clear that the provision of such a library is not without problems, as we shall discuss briefly in section 4.…”

Section: The Space Scientistsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Some Problems of Professional End User Developers

Segal

2007

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007)

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Section: The Space Scientistsmentioning

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Some Problems of Professional End User Developers

Segal

2007

IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2007)

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“…Although Mørch's paper did not focus on the web components world, it was the first to deal with building blocks as they are used in the most successful WEUD tools today. Mørch et al [37] later identified the need to create RIAs to support routine work by EUPs, although they included other roles in the development process, such as, for example, advanced programmers to assemble and configure the parts used. This is a job that EUPs could do themselves if they had access to the right mechanisms and simple, general-purpose but at the same time fully functional, component models, as illustrated by the success of some of today's WEUD tools [17,38].…”

Section: Related Work: Existing Solutions For End-user Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Web-centred end-user component modelling

Lizcano

Alonso

Soriano

et al. 2016

Future Generation Computer Systems

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A B S T R A C TThis paper formally defines a web component model enabling end-user programmers to build component-based rich internet applications (RIAs) that are tailored to meet their particular needs. It is the product of a series of previously published papers. The formal definition in description logic verifies that the model is consistent and subsumes currently existing models. We demonstrate experimentally that it is more effective than the others.Current tools propose very disparate web component models, which are based on the appropriate invocation of service backends, overlooking user needs in order to exploit these services and resources in a friendly manner. We have proposed a web model based on a detailed study of existing tools, their pros and cons, limitations and key success factors that have enabled other web end-user development (WEUD) solutions to help end-user programmers to build software to support their needs. In this paper we have verified that the proposed model subsumes and is instantiated by the models of the other existing tools that we analysed, coming a step closer to the standardization of end-user centred RIAs and development environments. We have implemented a development tool, called EzWeb, to produce RIAs that implement the proposed model. This tool enables users to develop their application following the model's component structure based on end-user programming success factors. We report a statistical experiment in which users develop increasingly complex web software using the EzWeb tool generating RIAs that conform to the proposed component model, and other WEUD tools generating RIAs that conform to other models. This experiment confirms the applicability of the proposed model and demonstrates that more end-user programmers (EUPs) (users concerned with programming primarily for personal rather public use) successfully develop web solutions for complex problems using the EzWeb tool that implements the model, which is more efficient than existing tools that implement other models.

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“…Our approach follows the lines of end-user software engineering proposed by Mørch et al [6]. Specifically, Pantagruel is based on a compositional approach, where the user connects components (i.e., , sensors, actuators, and controllers) together to form an application.…”

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“…Easing the programming of applications for assisting users in their everyday life has been a dominant trend in the home automation research community [1,2,3,4,5,6]. These applications aim to address the user needs by automating their daily tasks in various areas of the home automation domain, such as assisted living, home security, and energy management.…”

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Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

Drey

Consel

2012

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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Home automation environments are dedicated to helping users in their everyday life and are being deployed in an increasing number of areas, including home security, energy consumption, and assisted living. The range of situations to be addressed makes the development of home automation applications challenging: it requires to manage heterogeneous entities with a wide variety of functionalities. Moreover, since this area covers a large spectrum of user needs, it is crucial to ease the development and the evolution of these applications. This paper presents Pantagruel, an expressive and accessible approach to integrating a taxonomical description of a home automation environment into a visual programming language. A taxonomy describes the relevant entities of a given home automation area and serves as a parameter to a sensor-controller-actuator development paradigm. The orchestration of area-specific entities is supported by high-level constructs, customized with respect to taxonomical information.We have implemented a visual environment that integrates a taxonomical approach in the development of orchestration rules. Furthermore, we have developed a compiler for Pantagruel and successfully used it to test applications in various areas related to orchestration development for the domain of home automation. Finally, we have successfully evaluated the usability of Pantagruel through a user study performed with eighteen novice programmers.

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Component-based technologies for end-user development

Cited by 84 publications

References 8 publications

Some Problems of Professional End User Developers

Some Problems of Professional End User Developers

Web-centred end-user component modelling

Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

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