Reverse engineering of Web Applications to abstract user-centered conceptual models

Author

Bernardi, Mario Luca ; Lucca, Giuseppe Antonio Di ; Distante, Damiano

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Sannio, Benevento

fYear

2008

fDate

3-4 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

110

Abstract

The ubiquitous Web applications (UWA) Hyperbase model is a user-centered conceptual model representing the contents of a Web application, their organization in terms of entities and components, and the semantic associations between entities from which navigation paths are derived. Such a model may provide useful support for the software engineer during maintenance and evolution tasks. This paper presents a strategy for the semi-automatic abstraction of UWA Hyperbase models from existing Web applications. The results from a case study, involving four applications from real world, carried out to assess the effectiveness of the strategy are also presented and discussed.

Keywords

Web sites; reverse engineering; software engineering; ubiquitous computing; hyperbase model; reverse engineering; semantic associations; semiautomatic abstraction; software engineer; ubiquitous Web applications; user-centered conceptual models; Application software; Data mining; Design methodology; Documentation; Information analysis; Navigation; Object oriented modeling; Reverse engineering; Software maintenance; Time to market; Reverse engineering; UWA; user-centered conceptual models; web application evolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Site Evolution, 2008. WSE 2008. 10th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1550-4441

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2790-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSE.2008.4655402

Filename

4655402