scholarly journals How do Web-Active End-User Programmers Forage?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep Kaur Kuttal ◽  
Abim Sedhain ◽  
Benjamin Riethmeier
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Foraging Theory ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
End User ◽  
Information Foraging ◽  
Programming Environments ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
The Web

Web-active end-user programmers spend substantial time and cognitive effort seeking information while debugging web mashups, which are platforms for creating web applications by combining data and functionality from two or more different sources. The debugging on these platforms is challenging as end user programmers need to forage within the mashup environment to find bugs and on the web to forage for the solution to those bugs. To understand the foraging behavior of end-user programmers when debugging, we used information forging theory. Information foraging theory helps understand how users forage for information and has been successfully used to understand and model user behavior when foraging through documents, the web, user interfaces, and programming environments. Through the lens of information foraging theory, we analyzed the data from a controlled lab study of eight web-active end-user programmers. The programmers completed two debugging tasks using the Yahoo! Pipes web mashup environment. On analyzing the data, we identified three types of cues: clear, fuzzy, and elusive. Clear cues helped participants to find and fix bugs with ease while fuzzy and elusive cues led to useless foraging. We also identified the strategies used by the participants when finding and fixing bugs. Our results give us a better understanding of the programming behavior of web-active end-users and can inform researchers and professionals how to create better support for the debugging process. Further, this study methodology can be adapted by researchers to understand other aspects of programming such as implementing, reusing, and maintaining code.

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.

Supporting Accessible User Interfaces Using Web Services

2016 ◽  
pp. 866-884
Author(s):  
Georgios Bouloukakis ◽  
Ioannis Basdekis ◽  
Constantine Stephanidis
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
Content Accessibility ◽  
The Web

Web services are an emerging technology that has attracted much attention from both the research and the industry sectors in recent years. The exploitation of Web services as components in Web applications facilitates development and supports application interoperability, regardless of the programming language and platform used. However, existing Web services development standards do not take into account the fact that the provided content and the interactive functionality should be accessible to, and easily operable by, people with disabilities. This chapter presents a platform named myWebAccess, which provides a mechanism for the semi-automated “repair” of Web services' interaction characteristics in order to support the automatic generation of interface elements that conform to the de facto standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. myWebAccess enhances interaction quality for specific target user groups, including people with visual and motor disabilities, and supports the use of Web services on diverse platforms (e.g., mobile phones equipped with a browser). The Web developers can build their own design templates and the users of myWebAccess can create a personalized environment containing their favourite services. Thus, they can interact with them through interfaces appropriate to their specific individual characteristics.

How end-user programmers debug visual web-based programs: An information foraging theory perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 22-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep Kaur Kuttal ◽  
Anita Sarma ◽  
Margaret Burnett ◽  
Gregg Rothermel ◽  
Ian Koeppe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foraging Theory ◽  
End User ◽  
Information Foraging ◽  
Web Based

A Structured Methodology for Developing 3D Web Applications

2010 ◽  
pp. 15-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel González-Calleros ◽  
Jean Vanderdonckt ◽  
Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Web Development ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Evolution Of Technology ◽  
Web 3D ◽  
The Web

Effective and satisfying Web usability is crucial for successfully built Web applications. Traditionally, Web development considered 2D User Interfaces (2D UI) based on Graphical User Interfaces (GUI). Since the end of the 90’s, the evolution of technology and computers capacity introduced a new paradigm, the Web 3D. Similarly to traditional web development, Web 3D development requires an interdisciplinary approach and a profound theoretical background. In this chapter the authors attempt to structure a methodology to support 3DUIs development. The development methodology is articulated on three axes: models and their specification language, method, and tools that support the methodology based on the underlying models. The method considers guidelines to support its correct use towards producing usable 3DUIs.

A Study on Performance of E-Commerce Web Applications

2018 ◽  
pp. 192-199
Author(s):  
Sreedhar G
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Grading System ◽  
End User ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
The Web

The growth of World Wide Web and technologies has made business functions to be executed fast and easier. E-commerce has provided a cost efficient and effective way of doing business. In this paper the importance of e-commerce web applications and how Internet of Things is related to e-commerce is well discussed. In the end-user perspective, the performance of e-commerce application is mainly connected to the web application design and services provided in the e-commerce website. A grading system is used to evaluate the performance of each e-commerce website.

Supporting Accessible User Interfaces Using Web Services

2016 ◽  
pp. 1477-1495
Author(s):  
Georgios Bouloukakis ◽  
Ioannis Basdekis ◽  
Constantine Stephanidis
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Accessibility Guidelines ◽  
Content Accessibility ◽  
The Web

Web services are an emerging technology that has attracted much attention from both the research and the industry sectors in recent years. The exploitation of Web services as components in Web applications facilitates development and supports application interoperability, regardless of the programming language and platform used. However, existing Web services development standards do not take into account the fact that the provided content and the interactive functionality should be accessible to, and easily operable by, people with disabilities. This chapter presents a platform named myWebAccess, which provides a mechanism for the semi-automated “repair” of Web services' interaction characteristics in order to support the automatic generation of interface elements that conform to the de facto standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. myWebAccess enhances interaction quality for specific target user groups, including people with visual and motor disabilities, and supports the use of Web services on diverse platforms (e.g., mobile phones equipped with a browser). The Web developers can build their own design templates and the users of myWebAccess can create a personalized environment containing their favourite services. Thus, they can interact with them through interfaces appropriate to their specific individual characteristics.

A Study on Performance of E-Commerce Web Applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 1136-1143
Author(s):  
Sreedhar G
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Grading System ◽  
End User ◽  
User Perspective ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
The Web

The growth of World Wide Web and technologies has made business functions to be executed fast and easier. E-commerce has provided a cost efficient and effective way of doing business. In this paper the importance of e-commerce web applications and how Internet of Things is related to e-commerce is well discussed. In the end-user perspective, the performance of e-commerce application is mainly connected to the web application design and services provided in the e-commerce website. A grading system is used to evaluate the performance of each e-commerce website.

scholarly journals Optimizing performance of search engines based on user behavior

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.7) ◽  
pp. 359
Author(s):  
Dr Jkr Sastry ◽  
M Sri Harsha Vamsi ◽  
R Srinivas ◽  
G Yeshwanth
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
User Characteristics ◽  
End User ◽  
The Web

WEB clients use the WEB for searching the content that they are looking for through inputting keywords or snippets as input to the search engines. Search Engines follows a process to collect the content and provide the same as output in terms of URL links. One can observe that only 20% of the outputted URLS are of use to the end user. 80% of output is unnecessarily surfed leading to wastage of money and time. Customers have surfing characteristics which can be collected as the user keep surfing. The search process can be made efficient by including the user characteristics / Behaviors as part and parcel of search process. This paper is aimed at improving the search process through integration of the user behavior in indexing and ranking the web pages.

Study and Improvement of a Web Application Load Testing Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 321-324 ◽  
pp. 2969-2973
Author(s):  
Hua Ji Zhu ◽  
Hua Rui Wu
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Load Capacity ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Load Testing ◽  
Application Performance ◽  
Testing Model ◽  
User Groups ◽  
The Web

As an important indicator of Web application performance testing - load capacity is a key factor to judge the merits of the Web application performance, load testing model is an important premise to accurately obtain the Web applications load capacity; This article is based on the model of user groups, Through further analysis of the general user behavior , user groups model is been improved properly. The practical application shows that the improved model more realistically simulate real user behavior, and make the data more statistical significance, which can more accurately predict the performance of web applications. Keywords: Web applications, load capacity, performance testing, load testing, model

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