Extending UML for modeling Web applications

Baresi, Luciano; Garzotto, Franca; Puppa, Paolo

doi:10.1109/hicss.2001.926350

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“…There has been some prior work on formal modeling of web applications using UML [7] and extending UML to capture complex web application behavior such as browsing and operations on navigation states [1]. WebML [5] is a modeling language developed specifically for modeling web applications.…”

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Bounded verification of Ruby on Rails data models

Nijjar

Bultan

2011

Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

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The use of scripting languages to build web applications has increased programmer productivity, but at the cost of degrading dependability. In this paper we focus on a class of bugs that appear in web applications that are built based on the Model-View-Controller architecture. Our goal is to automatically discover data model errors in Ruby on Rails applications. To this end, we created an automatic translator that converts data model expressions in Ruby on Rails applications to formal specifications. In particular, our translator takes Active Records specifications (which are used to specify data models in Ruby on Rails applications) as input and generates a data model in Alloy language as output. We then use bounded verification techniques implemented in the Alloy Analyzer to look for errors in these formal data model specifications. We applied our approach to two open source web applications to demonstrate its feasibility.

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confidence: 99%

Bounded verification of Ruby on Rails data models

Nijjar

Bultan

2011

Proceedings of the 2011 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

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“…According to the authors, the integration between UML and HDM consists in four ways. Defining several stereotypes and customizations of diagrams to render HDM with UML, specifying guidelines to use UML as a way to specify some of the dynamic and operational aspects of web applications, refining use case diagrams to describe high-level user requirements, and related to both functional and navigational aspects [2].…”

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Situational requirements engineering for the development of Content Management System-based web applications

Souer¹,

Weerd

Versendaal

et al. 2007

IJWET

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Web applications are evolving towards strong content-centered Web applications. The development processes and implementation of these applications are unlike the development and implementation of traditional information systems. In this paper we propose WebEngineering Method; a method for developing content management system (CMS) based Web applications. Critical to a successful development of CMS-based Web applications, is the adaptation to the dynamic business. We first define CMS-based Web applications and identify their specific characteristics. Combining these characteristics with situational factors in projects, we show that by taking parts of proven methods such as UML based Web-engineering (UWE) and the Unified Software Development Process (UP), a unique method can be assembled for situational development of CMS-based Web applications. We successfully validated the method at GX, a web-technology specialized in developing and implementing CMS-based Web applications. Future research focuses on optimizing the development method, and creating reference models and modeling tools for the development of CMS-based Web applications.Keywords: Requirements Engineering, Web application, Content Management System, Method Engineering. Web Application Development and ImplementationNowadays, organizations rely on the Web to support their business processes and use Internet as a way create competitive advantage, global collaboration and integration with external partners [19]. Applications based on Web-technology are considered of strategic importance [28]. With the unrestrained growth of unstructured information, the need for a system to control the information emerges. Content Management System-based Web applications are applications which combine both enabling the Web technology and managing the unstructured information. CMS-based Web applications are therefore implemented to support the organization with the creation, management and publishing of information in an efficient en effective way. Examples of CMS-based Web applications are Mediasurface, Tridion, Vignette, Documentum, Microsoft Content Management Server, GX WebManager, and the open source product Zope. These Web applications should be agile enough to respond to the dynamic business and the ever-changing customer demands [1]. However, existing methods for the requirements engineering (i.e. the capturing and specification of the requirements) of Web applications often fail to capture and specify the business dynamics, fail to implement the desired system, and often lack the Web focus [19]. The literature gives a plausible explanation by suggesting that the Web applications differ from conventional information system [8], [9] and [18]. Since there is no literature on specific CMS, we developed a method specific for CMS-based Web applications, constructed using components of two pre-existing methods: UML-based Web Engineering (UWE) [16] and the Unified Development Process (UP) [6]. The method is integrated into a generic development method consisting ...

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“…User modelling is supported by UHDM [12], WebML [4] and W2000 [1] but independently from navigation. According to [10] the adaptation specification can be involved as slice or slice relationship condition.…”

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Navigation Modelling in Adaptive Hypermedia

Dolog

Bieliková

2002

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In this paper we reflect the need for modelling in a systematic production of adaptive hypermedia applications. Proposed approach is based on the Unified Modelling Language (UML). State diagrams are used to model possible paths through hypertext. The user model expressed by a class diagram determines structural and behavioural features, which are used for specification of adaptations in states and transitions contained in state diagrams.

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Extending UML for modeling Web applications

Cited by 80 publications

References 11 publications

Bounded verification of Ruby on Rails data models

Bounded verification of Ruby on Rails data models

Situational requirements engineering for the development of Content Management System-based web applications

Navigation Modelling in Adaptive Hypermedia

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