Designing a framework for end user applications

  • Authors:

  • Yanbo Deng;Clare Churcher;Walt Abell;John McCallum

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Applied Computing, Lincoln University, Lincoln, Christchurch, New Zealand;Department of Applied Computing, Lincoln University, Lincoln, Christchurch, New Zealand;Department of Applied Computing, Lincoln University, Lincoln, Christchurch, New Zealand;Plant and Food Research, Christchurch, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • IS-EUD'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on End-user development
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Specialised end user developed database applications can often be designed and developed quickly and simply to meet specific needs. However these applications are often difficult to generalise or adapt when requirements inevitably change. In this paper we describe a framework that allows a basic data model to have several coexisting variations which will satisfy the requirements of different user groups in a common domain. A web service and development toolkits provide a simple programming interface for interacting with the database. User trials showed that end users were able to use the system to quickly adapt and create applications. The result allows the needs of several different groups of users to have their specialist needs managed within a single organisational database.