Quality-Aware Mashup Composition: Issues, Techniques and Tools

Cappiello, Cinzia; Matera, Maristella; Picozzi, Matteo; Daniel, Florian; Fernandez, Adrián

doi:10.1109/quatic.2012.50

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“…In some previous works, we already experimented mechanisms to pro vide recommendations about services and composition patterns to be exploited in a mashup [11]. In situations where a mashup platform has to support the creation of complex workspaces, some mechanisms are also needed to avoid errors, for example checking whether collisions and inconsistencies occur among concurring events at the UI level.…”

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End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

Desolda

Ardito

Costabile

et al. 2017

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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Developing interactive systems to access and manipulate data is a very tough task. In particular, the development of user interfaces (UIs) is one of the most time-consuming activities in the software lifecycle. This is even more demanding when data have to be retrieved by accessing flexibly different online resources. Indeed, software development is moving more and more toward composite applications that aggregate on the fly specific Web services and APIs. In this article, we present a mashup model that describes the integration, at the presentation layer, of UI components. The goal is to allow non-technical end users to visualize and manipulate (i.e., to perform actions on) the data displayed by the components, which thus become actionable UI components. This article shows how the model has guided the development of a mashup platform through which non-technical end users can create component-based interactive workspaces via the aggregation and manipulation of data fetched from distributed online resources. Due to the abundance of online data sources, facilitating the creation of such interactive workspaces is a very relevant need that emerges in different contexts. A utilization study has been performed in order to assess the benefits of the proposed model and of the Actionable UI Components; participants were required to perform real tasks using the mashup platform. The study results are reported and discussed.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

Desolda

Ardito

Costabile

et al. 2017

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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“…Thanks to the intermixing of application design and execution, the users are provided with immediate feedback about the effect of their composition actions. [Cappiello et al 2011a[Cappiello et al , 2011b[Cappiello et al , 2012.…”

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A UI-Centric Approach for the End-User Development of Multidevice Mashups

2015

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In recent years, models, composition paradigms, and tools for mashup development have been proposed to support the integration of information sources, services and APIs available on the Web. The challenge is to provide a gate to a "programmable Web," where end users are allowed to construct easily composite applications that merge content and functions so as to satisfy the long tail of their specific needs. The approaches proposed so far do not fully accommodate this vision. This article, therefore, proposes a mashup development framework that is oriented toward the End-User Development. Given the fundamental role of user interfaces (UIs) as a medium easily understandable by the end users, the proposed approach is characterized by UI-centric models able to support a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) specification of data integration and service orchestration. It, therefore, contributes to the definition of adequate abstractions that, by hiding the technology and implementation complexity, can be adopted by the end users in a kind of "democratic" paradigm for mashup development. This article also shows how model-to-code generative techniques translate models into application schemas, which in turn guide the dynamic instantiation of the composite applications at runtime. This is achieved through lightweight execution environments that can be deployed on the Web and on mobile devices to support the pervasive use of the created applications.

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“…Cappiello et al [2012] specifically focus on end-user development and on a widget-based live mashup paradigm that comes without explicit models (making development more intuitive) and complement it with quality-aware recommendations of UI widgets. Quality awareness may indeed improve the quality in our approach also, but so far our focus has been on model-driven mashup paradigms.…”

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Recommendation and Weaving of Reusable Mashup Model Patterns for Assisted Development

Chowdhury

Daniel

Casati

2014

ACM Trans. Internet Technol.

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With this article, we give an answer to one of the open problems of mashup development that users may face when operating a model-driven mashup tool, namely the lack of modeling expertise. Although commonly considered simple applications, mashups can also be complex software artifacts depending on the number and types of Web resources (the components) they integrate. Mashup tools have undoubtedly simplified mashup development, yet the problem is still generally nontrivial and requires intimate knowledge of the components provided by the mashup tool, its underlying mashup paradigm, and of how to apply such to the integration of the components. This knowledge is generally neither intuitive nor standardized across different mashup tools and the consequent lack of modeling expertise affects both skilled programmers and end-user programmers alike.In this article, we show how to effectively assist the users of mashup tools with contextual, interactive recommendations of composition knowledge in the form of reusable mashup model patterns. We design and study three different recommendation algorithms and describe a pattern weaving approach for the one-click reuse of composition knowledge. We report on the implementation of three pattern recommender plugins for different mashup tools and demonstrate via user studies that recommending and weaving contextual mashup model patterns significantly reduces development times in all three cases.

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Quality-Aware Mashup Composition: Issues, Techniques and Tools

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

A UI-Centric Approach for the End-User Development of Multidevice Mashups

Recommendation and Weaving of Reusable Mashup Model Patterns for Assisted Development

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