Quality and usability of mashup tools

Abstract

Web mashups can add "agility" to software construction by enabling end-users without programming skills to compose their own service software on the basis of existing services. All that is needed for such purposes is a good mashup composition tool. The question remains how helpful and useful such tools really are for their users. To this end we have conducted a survey in which the participants were confronted with a widely-used representative of mashup tool and a typical mashup composition task. By-and-large the participants of the survey did well and the mashup tools seem to be able to fulfill their promises.

Subjective and Objective Assessment of Mashup Tools

“…In that respect, they represent shift from product-oriented software development to consumer-oriented composition [14]. Malinga et al [13] distinguish four types of mashup tools. Processoriented mashup tools enable users to simulate business procedures [7] and integrate assorted processes [8] in an enterprise.…”