scholarly journals Enhancing decision-making in user-centered web development: a methodology for card-sorting analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Macías ◽  
Alma L. Culén
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Information Architecture ◽  
Interactive Software ◽  
Card Sorting ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
User Centered

AbstractThe World Wide Web has become a common platform for interactive software development. Most web applications feature custom user interfaces used by millions of people every day. Information architecture addresses the structural design of information to build quality web applications with improved usability of content, navigation, and findability. One of the most frequently utilized information architecture methods is card sorting—an affordable, user-centered approach for eliciting and evaluating categories and navigable items. Card sorting facilitates decision-making during the development process based on users’ mental models of a given application domain. However, although the qualitative analysis of card sorts has become common practice in information architecture, the quantitative analysis of card sorting is less widely applied. The reason for this gap is that quantitative analysis often requires the use of customized techniques to extract meaningful information for decision-making. To facilitate this process and support the structuring of information, we propose a methodology for the quantitative analysis of card-sorting results in this paper. The suggested approach can be systematically applied to provide clues and support for decisions. These might significantly impact the design and, thus, the final quality of the web application. Therefore, the approach includes proper goodness values that enable comparisons among the results of the methods and techniques used and ensure the suitability of the analyses performed. Two publicly available datasets were used to demonstrate the key issues related to the interpretation of card sorting results and the overall suitability and validity of the proposed methodology.

ANALYZING AND IMPROVING WEB APPLICATION QUALITY USING DESIGN PATTERNS

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Shikha Bhatia ◽  
Mr. Harshpreet Singh
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Design Pattern ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Interactive Software ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Software Application ◽  
Execution Speed

With the mounting demand of web applications, a number of issues allied to its quality have came in existence. In the meadow of web applications, it is very thorny to develop high quality web applications. A design pattern is a general repeatable solution to a generally stirring problem in software design. It should be noted that design pattern is not a finished product that can be directly transformed into source code. Rather design pattern is a depiction or template that describes how to find solution of a problem that can be used in many different situations. Past research has shown that design patterns greatly improved the execution speed of a software application. Design pattern are classified as creational design patterns, structural design pattern, behavioral design pattern, etc. MVC design pattern is very productive for architecting interactive software systems and web applications. This design pattern is partition-independent, because it is expressed in terms of an interactive application running in a single address space. We will design and analyze an algorithm by using MVC approach to improve the performance of web based application. The objective of our study will be to reduce one of the major object oriented features i.e. coupling between model and view segments of web based application. The implementation for the same will be done in by using .NET framework.

Morpheus Web Testing: A Tool for Generating Test Cases for Widget Based Web Applications

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romulo de Almeida Neves ◽  
Willian Massami Watanabe ◽  
Rafael Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Code Coverage ◽  
Web Testing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Software Lifecycle ◽  
The Web

Context: Widgets are reusable User Interfaces (UIs) components frequently delivered in Web applications.In the web application, widgets implement different interaction scenarios, such as buttons, menus, and text input.Problem: Tests are performed manually, so the cost associated with preparing and executing test cases is high.Objective: Automate the process of generating functional test cases for web applications, using intermediate artifacts of the web development process that structure widgets in the web application. The goal of this process is to ensure the quality of the software, reduce overall software lifecycle time and the costs associated with tests.Method:We elaborated a test generation strategy and implemented this strategy in a tool, Morpheus Web Testing. Morpheus Web Testing extracts widget information from Java Server Faces artifacts to generate test cases for JSF web applications. We conducted a case study for comparing Morpheus Web Testing with a state of the art tool (CrawlJax).Results: The results indicate evidence that the approach Morpheus Web Testing managed to reach greater code coverage compared to a CrawlJax.Conclusion: The achieved coverage values represent evidence that the results obtained from the proposed approach contribute to the process of automated test software engineering in the industry.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Impact of Malware Analysis Techniques for Securing Web Applications through a Decision-Making Framework under Fuzzy Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 94-109
Author(s):  
Rajeev Kumar ◽  
◽  
Mamdouh Alenezi ◽  
Md Ansari ◽  
Bineet Gupta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Fuzzy Ahp ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Malware Analysis ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Web

Nowadays, most of the cyber-attacks are initiated by extremely malicious programs known as Malware. Malwares are very vigorous and can penetrate the security of information and communication systems. While there are different techniques available for malware analysis, it becomes challenging to select the most effective approach. In this context, the decision-making process may be an efficient means of empirically assessing the impact of different methods for securing the web applications. In this research study, we have used a methodology that includes the integration of Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy TOPSIS technique for evaluating the impact of different malware analysis techniques in web application perspective. This study uses different versions of a university’s web application for evaluating the impact of several existing malware analysis techniques. The findings of the study show that the Reverse Engineering approach is the most efficient technique for analyzing complex malware. The outcome of this study would definitely aid the future researchers and developers in selecting the appropriate techniques for scanning the web application code and enhancing the security.

Dynamic Wireless Application Development II

2005 ◽  
pp. 193-227
Author(s):  
Lei-da Chen ◽  
Gordon W. Skelton
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Development Environment ◽  
Wireless Applications ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Wireless Application

In the previous chapter, we created an m-business application using ColdFusion. Besides ColdFusion, many other development tools can be used to develop m-business applications. Visual Studio .NET, an integrated development environment by Microsoft, has become an increasingly popular corporate applicationdevelopment tool due to its ease of use and support for a wide range of programming languages. Besides traditional Windows and Web applications, Visual Studio .NET also allows developers to build mobile and wireless applications with relative ease. The focus of this chapter is to discuss the tools and techniques for developing wireless applications using Visual Studio .NET. Wireless applications are developed using the ASP .NET Mobile Web Application template. The template provides developers with WYSIWYG tools for creating user interfaces for various mobile devices. These tools work seamlessly with ASP.NET, which uses a form-based approach to build server-side applications for processing user requests and interacting with databases. In this chapter, we will develop a business-to-consumter wireless application using Visual Studio .NET.

scholarly journals Study of the Characteristic and Information Architecture Model of Enterprise Web Application

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Shuang Yuan Shi ◽  
Ju Song Zhang ◽  
Zong Guo Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Information Architecture ◽  
Functional Requirement ◽  
Web Development ◽  
Architecture Model ◽  
Ajax Technology

In this paper, we systematically described the characteristics of traditional Web applications, as well as the advantages of Ajax technology, analyzed the differences between enterprise web application and public web application, and the differences between enterprise web applications and desktop applications; studied the characteristics of enterprise Web applications and Information Architecture Model; on the basis of the analysis of enterprise-class framework, proposed functional requirement of components and framework which support enterprise-class Web development, discusses computing balance between the client and server.

scholarly journals Radiator: a cloud-based framework for deploying re-usable bioinformatics tools

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily K.W. Lo ◽  
Remy M. Schwab ◽  
Zak Burke ◽  
Patrick Cahan
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Cloud Provider ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Lightweight Framework ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Bioinformatics Tools ◽  
Command Line Tool ◽  
Amazon Web Services

AbstractSummaryAccessibility and usability of compute-intensive bioinformatics tools can be increased with simplified web-based graphic user interfaces. However, deploying such tools as web applications presents additional barriers, including the complexity of developing a usable interface, network latency in transferring large datasets, and cost, which we encountered in developing a web-based version of our command-line tool CellNet. Learning and generalizing from this experience, we have devised a lightweight framework, Radiator, to facilitate deploying bioinformatics tools as web applications. To achieve reproducibility, usability, consistent accessibility, throughput, and cost-efficiency, Radiator is designed to be deployed on the cloud. Here, we describe the internals of Radiator and how to use it.Availability and ImplementationCode for Radiator and the CellNet Web Application are freely available at https://github.com/pcahan1 under the MIT license. The CellNet WebApp, Radiator, and Radiator-derived applications can be launched through public Amazon Machine Images from the cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) (https://aws.amazon.com/).

scholarly journals IT Services and Crowdsourcing in Support of the Hellenic Cadastre: Advanced Citizen Participation and Crowdsourcing in the Official Property Registration Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 190 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Mourafetis ◽  
Chryssy Potsiou
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
It Services ◽  
Suggested Approach ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Property Registration ◽  
Cadastral Surveying

Greece is one of the few European countries that has not yet a fully operating Cadastre at national coverage. Cadastral surveying and property registration have been completed only for about 8% of the Greek territory, which includes about 18% of the total property rights. At the remaining areas, cadastral surveying and property registration is still under development and is expected to be completed by the end of 2021. The cadastral survey is a participatory procedure in which property right holders, or their representatives, are expected to declare the land parcels on which they have property rights and submit all documents that prove these rights. The time frame available for the declaration is 3 months, which is specific for each municipality. Right holders are now enabled to provide both spatial and descriptive information, regarding their properties and property rights, without the need of a professional. That includes the parcel’s boundary lines along with the legal documents required to validate the declaration. Each right holder, or a representative, has the option to submit a declaration over the internet through a web application without the need of a professional. Within the frame of a PhD research, several concerns were addressed such as usability, security, and scalability in order for the outcome to support its scope while respecting binding constrains. As a result, two web applications have been created to officially support the Hellenic Cadaster property rights declaration process. The suggested approach was considered a big success in terms of both public acceptance and usability as shown from the statistics collected during the first eight months of its formal operation.

scholarly journals Formalized approaches to assessing the usability of the user interface of web applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-21
Author(s):  
B.M M. Basok ◽  
S. L. Frenkel
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chains ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Probabilistic Models ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Similarity Measures ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Mathematical Methods ◽  
Web Resource

The paper proposes an approach based on the use of mathematical methods for modeling the behavior of the designed web application and user behavior. This approach allows an evaluation of the usability of this application. The paper discusses the models of user interfaces (UI), which are used to assess the convenience of site navigation. The possibility of using two classes of UI models is shown – structural-logical (ontological) and probabilistic. Models of the first class are used to assess the degree of comprehensibility of the proposed UI navigation on the search web resource in the accepted terms. For this, mathematically defined measures of similarity between the elements of the UI and their relationships and the elements of a hypothetical (but plausible) model of the user’s perception of the search area in a given subject area are used. In particular, the paper substantiates the possibility of using Jaccard and Levenshtein lexicographic distance metrics as such measures of similarity. Probabilistic models are based on Markov chains. With the help of these models, in the presence of reliable statistical data collected during the trial operation of a web application or its prototype, it is proposed to estimate the average number of user steps required to solve a specific problem of finding information about a subject area object. The paper provides some recommendations on the use of similarity measures to improve the usability of the UI of web applications. In addition, data on the technique for estimating the probabilities of transitions of Markov chains and semantic connections are presented. To clarify the features of the UI analysis models proposed in the article, the website of the RTU MIREA Admission Committee (https://priem.mirea.ru) is provided with a fairly simple organization that provides a search for information about admission and training at the University. The application of the approach described in the paper, along with traditional methods of testing the usability of UI, will increase the overall level of usability of applications, and thereby reduce the cost of identifying and correcting related errors.

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