Where web engineering tool support ends: building usable websites

  • Authors:
  • Richard Atterer

  • Affiliations:
  • Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, two of the currently available Web Engineering solutions (UWE and OO-H) are analysed with regard to the question whether websites created with them and their tools have a high usability. Additionally, the respective models are examined to see whether usability aspects can be expressed with them. In a small case study, an example website is created by converting a model to an implementation manually. Special attention is paid to usability issues regarding both the generated pages and the development process. Subsequently, the manual conversion is compared to a tool-supported process.