End-User Development of Mashups with NaturalMash

End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

“…An example of full-automated tool is NaturalMash: it supports users to express in natural language what services they want to include in their mashup and how to orchestrate them [2]. However, to improve accuracy of the user requests, NaturalMash constraints the expression of requirements to a subset of a natural language with limited vocabulary and grammar.…”

“…An ever-increasing number of resources is nowadays available on the Web and provides content and functions in different formats through programmatic interfaces. The efforts of many research projects have thus focused on letting laypeople, i.e., users without expertise in programming (also called non-technical users), access and reuse the available content [2,24]. In this respect, the reuse of easily programmable UI components is a step towards the provision of en vironments facilitating the End-User Development (EUD) of service-based interactive workspaces [5].…”

Can icons enhance requirements engineering work?

“…Aghaee & Pautasso (2014) launched a visual mash-up tool that enables nonprofessional users without any knowledge of programming languages and skills to create feature-rich, interactive, and useful mash-ups. Ardito et al (2014) invented a flexible composition platform that supports the activities of the various stakeholders involved through heterogeneous visual templates.…”

Distributing the User Interface Logics along Actionable Components: the EFESTO Approach

“…An everincreasing number of resources that provide content and functions in different formats through programmatic interfaces is available. The efforts of many research projects have thus focused on letting laypeople, i.e., users without expertise in programming, to access and exploit the available content [7,8,9]. With this respect, the reuse of easily programmable UI components is a step forwards the provision of environments facilitating the End-User Development (EUD) of service-based interactive workspaces [10].…”

“…One of the pioneers (even if it is not available anymore) was Yahoo!Pipes [8] that, in the attempt to better support end users, provided a visual editor to access services and operators visualized as visual modules that could be combined into a canvas pane by means of 'pipes' through drag and drop actions. A different paradigm was implemented in NaturalMash, which allows users to express in natural language what service(s) to use and how to synchronize them [7]. However, problems related to the use of a natural language still remain.…”