ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF PROGRAMMATIC INTERFACES FOR INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE WEB CONTENTS

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1487-1511
Author(s):  
JUNXIA GUO ◽  
HAO HAN
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Uniform Interface ◽  
Web Contents ◽  
End User Programming ◽  
Flexible Integration ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Web

The technology that integrates various types of Web contents to build a new Web application through end-user programming is widely used nowadays. However, the Web contents do not have a uniform interface for accessing the data and computation. Most of the general Web users access information on the Web through applications until now. Hence, designing a uniform and flexible programmatic interface for integration of different Web contents is unavoidable. In this paper, we propose an approach that can be used to analyze Web applications automatically and reuse the information of Web applications through the programmatic interface we designed. Our approach can support the flexible integration of Web applications, Web services and Web feeds. In our experiments, we use a large number of Web pages from different types of Web applications and achieve the integration by the proposed programmatic interfaces. The experimental results show that our approach brings to the end-users a flexible and user-friendly programming environment.

scholarly journals Detecção Automática de Incompatibilidades Cross-Browser utilizando Redes Neurais Artificiais

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Fagner Christian Paes ◽  
Willian Massami Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Automatic Detection ◽  
False Positives ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Inspection Process ◽  
Cascading Style Sheets ◽  
Mozilla Firefox ◽  
Web Developers ◽  
The Web

Cross-Browser Incompatibilities (XBIs) represent inconsistencies in Web Application when introduced in different browsers. The growing number of implementation of browsers (Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome) and the constant evolution of the specifications of Web technologies provided differences in the way that the browsers behave and render the web pages. The web applications must behave consistently among browsers. Therefore, the web developers should overcome the differences that happen during the rendering in different environments by detecting and avoiding XBIs during the development process. Many web developers depend on manual inspection of web pages in several environments to detect the XBIs, independently of the cost and time that the manual tests represent to the process of development. The tools for the automatic detection of the XBIs accelerate the inspection process in the web pages, but the current tools have little precision, and their evaluations report a large percentage of false positives. This search aims to evaluate the use of Artificial Neural Networks for reducing the numbers of false positives in the automatic detection of the XBIs through the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and the relative comparison of the element in the web page.

FTT

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Ying ◽  
James Miller
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Development ◽  
Common Part ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Form Transformation ◽  
The Web

Forms are a common part of web applications. They provide a method for the user to interact with the web application. However, forms in traditional applications require entire web pages to be refreshed every time they are submitted. This model is inefficient and should be replaced with Ajax-enabled forms. Ajax is a set of web development technologies that enables web applications to behave more like desktop applications, thus allowing a richer, more interactive and more efficient model for interactions between the user and the web application. This paper presents a refactoring system called Form Transformation Tool (FTT) to assist web programmers refactor traditional forms into Ajax-enabled forms while ensuring that functionality before and after refactoring is preserved.

Visual Environment for DOM-Based Wrapping and Client-Side Linkage of Web Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Kimihito Ito ◽  
Yuzuru Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Legacy Applications ◽  
Client Side ◽  
The Web

Web applications, which are computer programs ported to the Web, allow end-users to use various remote services and tools through their Web browsers. There are an enormous number of Web applications on the Web, and they are becoming the basic infrastructure of everyday life. In spite of the remarkable development of Web-based infrastructure, it is still difficult for end-users to compose new integrated tools of both existing Web applications and legacy local applications, such as spreadsheets, chart tools, and database. In this chapter, the authors propose a new framework where end-users can wrap remote Web applications into visual components, called pads, and functionally combine them together through drag-and-drop operations. The authors use, as the basis, a meme media architecture IntelligentPad that was proposed by the second author. In the IntelligentPad architecture, each visual component, called a pad, has slots as data I/O ports. By pasting a pad onto another pad, users can integrate their functionalities. The framework presented in this chapter allows users to visually create a wrapper pad for any Web application by defining HTML nodes within the Web application to work as slots. Examples of such a node include input-forms and text strings on Web pages. Users can directly manipulate both wrapped Web applications and wrapped local legacy tools on their desktop screen to define application linkages among them. Since no programming expertise is required to wrap Web applications or to functionally combine them together, end-users can build new integrated tools of both wrapped Web applications and local legacy applications.

scholarly journals A Method for Automated User Interaction Testing of Web Applications

2015 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Le Khanh Trinh ◽  
Vo Dinh Hieu ◽  
Pham Ngoc Hung
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Finite State Automaton ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
User Interactions ◽  
Compositional Model ◽  
Finite State ◽  
Interaction Testing ◽  
The Web

Automated user  interaction  testing  of  Web applications has  been  received  great  attentions  from the  research  community  and  industry.  Currently, several  available  tools are proposed to partly deal withthe problem.  However, how to perform the  automated user  interaction  testing  of  whole  Web  applications effectively  is  still  an  open  problem.   This  research proposes  a  method  and  develops  a  tool  supporting automated  user  interaction  testing  of  whole  Web applications.  In  this  method, the  model  of  each  Web page  of  the  Web  application  under  testing  which describes the user interaction (UI)  is  represented  by  a finite state  automaton. The whole model that describes the  behaviors  of  the  whole  Web  application  then  is constructed by composing the models  of all  Web pages. After  that,  test  paths  are generated automatically based  on  the  compositional  model  of  the  Web application  so  that  these  test  paths  cover  all  possible user interactions  of the application.  A tool supporting the proposed method has  been developed and  applied to  test  on  some  simple  Web  applications.    The experimental results show the potential  application  of this tool for automated user interaction  testing of Webapplications in practice

scholarly journals Innovative Agricultural Information System with User Friendly Digital Assistance for Farmers

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 604-612
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Specific Region ◽  
The Government ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
The Web

In India, most of the populace is subordinate to cultivating for survival. Numerous farmers are not mindful of the exterior world and the specialized progressions around cultivating. They confront a parcel of issues in their day-to-day life such as they need to keep track of their trim stock, their tractors, and devices. Most of the farmers do not have any thought almost the rates of the crops and their items and they offer their items at any fetched price. In today's world, farmers get news through daily papers and television. Farmers don’t get the data or news around the closest showcase that's displayed in their locale or indeed offer and track their crops. So, because of this they more often do not get any thought about the current news regarding the farming plans. In conclusion, they have to sell their products at a very low cost to a local supplier. We are looking forward to protecting these anticipating farmers from being cheated from their reasonable share of their income. These days versatile applications and web administrations are making things less difficult by satisfying our day by day needs for data, communication, amusement, or relaxation. Web applications have brought an unused insurgency. In this paper, we offer one such web application called “Genesis - Farmers Digital Assistant” which is as of now beneath advancement by us. This web benefit can offer assistance to farmers, customers, and suppliers have a less difficult, easy-to-use, and less time-consuming solution. Farmers Digital Assistant could be a web application that's built on keeping the farmers, providers, and customers in intellect. It keeps a farmer overhauled with all the data related to crops, pesticides, bug sprays, money related segment, etc. It gives nitty gritty data about which crop to cultivate in which season and which crop is appropriate for that specific region where the farmer is situated in. The government of India is investing a lot to form the utilization of the web accommodation for agribusiness purposes but the hindrance is the literacy of farmers with their access to the advanced world presently. So, with this web application, we make it a point to create our project user-friendly for the farmers in specific.

FTT

2013 ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Ming Ying ◽  
James Miller
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Development ◽  
Common Part ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Form Transformation ◽  
The Web

Forms are a common part of web applications. They provide a method for the user to interact with the web application. However, forms in traditional applications require entire web pages to be refreshed every time they are submitted. This model is inefficient and should be replaced with Ajax-enabled forms. Ajax is a set of web development technologies that enables web applications to behave more like desktop applications, thus allowing a richer, more interactive and more efficient model for interactions between the user and the web application. This paper presents a refactoring system called Form Transformation Tool (FTT) to assist web programmers refactor traditional forms into Ajax-enabled forms while ensuring that functionality before and after refactoring is preserved.

scholarly journals Innovative Agricultural Information System with User Friendly Digital Assistance for Farmers

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 719-727
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Specific Region ◽  
The Government ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
The Web

In India, most of the populace is subordinate to cultivating for survival. Numerous farmers are not mindful of the exterior world and the specialized progressions around cultivating. They confront a parcel of issues in their day-to-day life such as they need to keep track of their trim stock, their tractors, and devices. Most of the farmers do not have any thought almost the rates of the crops and their items and they offer their items at any fetched price. In today's world, farmers get news through daily papers and television. Farmers don’t get the data or news around the closest showcase that's displayed in their locale or indeed offer and track their crops. So, because of this they more often do not get any thought about the current news regarding the farming plans. In conclusion, they have to sell their products at a very low cost to a local supplier. We are looking forward to protecting these anticipating farmers from being cheated from their reasonable share of their income. These days versatile applications and web administrations are making things less difficult by satisfying our day by day needs for data, communication, amusement, or relaxation. Web applications have brought an unused insurgency. In this paper, we offer one such web application called “Genesis - Farmers Digital Assistant” which is as of now beneath advancement by us. This web benefit can offer assistance to farmers, customers, and suppliers have a less difficult, easy-to-use, and less time-consuming solution. Farmers Digital Assistant could be a web application that's built on keeping the farmers, providers, and customers in intellect. It keeps a farmer overhauled with all the data related to crops, pesticides, bug sprays, money related segment, etc. It gives nitty gritty data about which crop to cultivate in which season and which crop is appropriate for that specific region where the farmer is situated in. The government of India is investing a lot to form the utilization of the web accommodation for agribusiness purposes but the hindrance is the literacy of farmers with their access to the advanced world presently. So, with this web application, we make it a point to create our project user-friendly for the farmers in specific.

THE USE OF WEB APPLICATIONS FOR THE SELECTION OF CROP GROWING TECHNOLOGIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 84-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. A. Lapchenko ◽  
S. P. Isakova ◽  
T. N. Bobrova ◽  
L. A. Kolpakova
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Weather Forecast ◽  
Technical Institute ◽  
Software Complex ◽  
Agricultural Enterprise ◽  
Weather Situation ◽  
The Web ◽  
Selection Of

It is shown that the application of the Internet technologies is relevant in the selection of crop production technologies and the formation of a rational composition of the machine-and-tractor fl eet taking into account the conditions and production resources of a particular agricultural enterprise. The work gives a short description of the web applications, namely “ExactFarming”, “Agrivi” and “AgCommand” that provide a possibility to select technologies and technical means of soil treatment, and their functions. “ExactFarming” allows to collect and store information about temperature, precipitation and weather forecast in certain areas, keep records of information about crops and make technological maps using expert templates. “Agrivi” allows to store and provide access to weather information in the fi elds with certain crops. It has algorithms to detect and make warnings about risks related to diseases and pests, as well as provides economic calculations of crop profi tability and crop planning. “AgCommand” allows to track the position of machinery and equipment in the fi elds and provides data on the weather situation in order to plan the use of agricultural machinery in the fi elds. The web applications presented hereabove do not show relation between the technologies applied and agro-climatic features of the farm location zone. They do not take into account the phytosanitary conditions in the previous years, or the relief and contour of the fi elds while drawing up technological maps or selecting the machine-and-tractor fl eet. Siberian Physical-Technical Institute of Agrarian Problems of Siberian Federal Scientifi c Center of AgroBioTechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences developed a software complex PIKAT for supporting machine agrotechnologies for production of spring wheat grain at an agricultural enterprise, on the basis of which there is a plan to develop a web application that will consider all the main factors limiting the yield of cultivated crops.

scholarly journals A Sign of Things to Come: Predicting the Perception of Above-the-Fold Time in Web Browsing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Hamed Z. Jahromi ◽  
Declan Delaney ◽  
Andrew Hines
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
The State ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Web Page ◽  
To Come ◽  
Web Quality ◽  
The Web

Content is a key influencing factor in Web Quality of Experience (QoE) estimation. A web user’s satisfaction can be influenced by how long it takes to render and visualize the visible parts of the web page in the browser. This is referred to as the Above-the-fold (ATF) time. SpeedIndex (SI) has been widely used to estimate perceived web page loading speed of ATF content and a proxy metric for Web QoE estimation. Web application developers have been actively introducing innovative interactive features, such as animated and multimedia content, aiming to capture the users’ attention and improve the functionality and utility of the web applications. However, the literature shows that, for the websites with animated content, the estimated ATF time using the state-of-the-art metrics may not accurately match completed ATF time as perceived by users. This study introduces a new metric, Plausibly Complete Time (PCT), that estimates ATF time for a user’s perception of websites with and without animations. PCT can be integrated with SI and web QoE models. The accuracy of the proposed metric is evaluated based on two publicly available datasets. The proposed metric holds a high positive Spearman’s correlation (rs=0.89) with the Perceived ATF reported by the users for websites with and without animated content. This study demonstrates that using PCT as a KPI in QoE estimation models can improve the robustness of QoE estimation in comparison to using the state-of-the-art ATF time metric. Furthermore, experimental result showed that the estimation of SI using PCT improves the robustness of SI for websites with animated content. The PCT estimation allows web application designers to identify where poor design has significantly increased ATF time and refactor their implementation before it impacts end-user experience.

Task Modelling for the Web (Aufgabenmodellierung für interaktive Webanwendungen)

i-com ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (3/2007) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birgit Bomsdorf
Keyword(s):  
Task Performance ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Web Engineering ◽  
Time Usage ◽  
Build Time ◽  
Object Models ◽  
The Web ◽  
Modelling Approach

SummaryTask modelling has entered the development process of web applications, strengthening the usage-centred view within the early steps in Web-Engineering (WE). In current approaches, however, this view is not kept up during subsequent activities to the same degree as this is the case in the field of Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI). The modelling approach presented in this contribution combines models as known from WE with models used in HCI to change this situation. Basically the WE-HCI-integration is supported by combining task and object models as known from HCI with conceptual modelling known from WE. In this paper, the main focus is on the WebTaskModel, a task model adapted to web application concerns, and its contribution towards a task-related web user interface. The main difference to existing task models is the build-time and run-time usage of a generic task lifecycle. Hereby the description of exceptions and erroneous situations during task performance (caused by, e.g., the stateless protocol or Browser interaction) is enabled and at the same time clearly separated from the flow of correct action.

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