Towards an end-user development approach for web engineering methods

  • Authors:
  • Pedro Valderas;Vicente Pelechano;Oscar Pastor

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information System and Computation, Technical University of Valencia, Spain;Department of Information System and Computation, Technical University of Valencia, Spain;Department of Information System and Computation, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

End-users who are nonprogrammers create web applications by using advanced web development tools. However, these tools are not supported by any methodological process which produces that web applications are of low quality. This paper presents an approach to bring web engineering principles to the end-user community. We complement the web engineering method OOWS with tools that allow end-users to develop web applications by: (1) describing web applications in terms of the end-users' knowledge about the application domain, (2) automatically obtaining a web application prototype by means of the OOWS code generation strategy, and (3) personalizing the web application look and feel by simply selecting a design template. To achieve this, an ontology-based strategy is introduced to support end-users throughout the web application development. We also introduce a strategy that allows us to define domain-independent presentation templates.