Title :
Separation anxiety: Stresses of developing a modern day separable User Interface
Author :
Kennard, Richard ; Edmonds, Ernest ; Leaney, John
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Technol., Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
The evolution of user interface (UI) tools has generally regarded the UI as separable from the underlying application it represents. This viewpoint leaves the UI having to restate invariants already specified in other subsystems of an application, and any discrepancy between the versions in the UI and those in the subsystems leads to errors. This paper explores a sample of real world subsystems in use by enterprise applications today, and underscores the problem of duplication between them and the UI. It then surveys the prevalence of this issue within mainstream software development.
Keywords :
software engineering; user interfaces; duplication problem; separation anxiety; software development; user interface; Application software; Energy management; Functional programming; Joining processes; Software tools; Stress; User interfaces; duplication; separable user interface;
Conference_Titel :
Human System Interactions, 2009. HSI '09. 2nd Conference on
Conference_Location :
Catania
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3959-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3960-7
DOI :
10.1109/HSI.2009.5090983