Towards improving the navigability of Web applications: A model-driven approach

European Journal of Information Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 420-447

  Castro, Cristina Cachero ^a   Meliá, Santiago ^a   Genero, Marcela ^b   Poels, Geert ^c   Calero, Coral ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Measures; Model quality; Model transformations; Navigational model quality; Software measurement ontology; Web quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 35549005448     PISSN: 0960085X     EISSN: 14769344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000690     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. ABRAHAO S, CONDORY-FERNANDEZ N, OLSINA L and PASTOR O (2003) Defining and validating metrics for navigation models. In Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium, pp 200-210, IEEE Press, Wiley, Chichester.
2. ABRAHAO S and INSFRAN E (2006) Early usability evaluation in model-driven architecture environments. In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Quality Software, pp 287-294, IEEE Press, Wiley, Chichester.
3. ASSMANN U, ZSCHALER S and WAGNER G (2006) Ontologies, Meta-Models, and the Model-Driven Paradigm. Ontologies for Software Engineering and Technology. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
4. AUER T (1998) Quality of IS use. European Journal of Information Systems 7(3), 192-201.
5. BALASUBRAMANIAN K, AGOKHALE A, KARSAI G, SZTIPANOVITS J and NEEMA S (2006) Developing applications using model-driven design environments. IEEE Computer 39(2), 33-40.
6. BASILI V, SHULL F and LANUBILE F (1999) Building knowledge through families of experiments. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 25(4), 435-437.
7. BEVAN N and AZUMA M (1997) Quality in use: incorporating human factors into the software engineering liferecycle. Third International Software Engineering Standards Symposium (ISESS '97), pp 169-1 79, Walnut Creek, CA.
8. BÉZIVIN J (2004) In search of a basic principle for model-driven engineering. Novática 5(2), 21-24.
9. BRIAND LL, MORASCA S and BASILI V (1999) Defining and validating measures for object-based high-level design. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 25(5), 722-743.
10. BRIAND LL and WÜST J (2002) Empirical studies of quality models in object-oriented systems. Advances in Computers 59, 97-166.
11. BRIAND LL, WÜST J, IKONOMOVSKI S and LOUNIS H (1999b) Investigating quality factors in object-oriented designs: an industrial case-study. 21st International Conference on Software Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, pp 345-354.
12. BRIAND LL, WÜST J and LOUNIS H (2001) Replicated case studies for investigating quality factors in object-oriented designs. Empirical Software Engineering 6(1), 11-58.
13. CACHERO C (2003) OO-H: Una Extensión a los Métodos OO para el Modelado y Generación Automática de Interfaces Hipermediales. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alicante, Spain. Available on-line at http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~ccachero/pTesis.htm.
14. CACHERO C (2005) OO-H navigability measures. Technical Report, University of Alicante. Available on-line at http://www.dlsi.ua.es/ ccachero/pPublicaciones.htm.
15. CALERO C, RUIZ J and PIATTINI M (2004) A web metrics survey using WQM. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3140, pp 147-160,Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
16. CAPLAT G and SOURROUILLE JL (2003) Considerations about model mapping. In Proceedings of the Workshop in Software Model Engineering, Sixth International Conference on the Unified Modelling Language, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2863, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
17. CERI S, FRATERNALI P and BONGIO A (2000) Web modeling language (WebML): a modeling language for designing web sites. Computer Networks 33(1-6), 137-157.
18. COMAI S, MATERA M and MAURINO A (2003) A model and an XSL framework for analyzing the quality of WebML conceptual schemas. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Quality, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2784, pp 339-350, Springer-Verlag, Heidenberg.
19. EL-EMAM K, BENLARBI S, GOEL N and RAI S (2001) The confounding effect of class size on the validity of object-oriented metrics. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 27(7), 630-650.
20. FENTON NE and PFLEEGER SL (1997) Software Metrics. A Rigurous and Practical Approach. PWS Publications, Boston, MA.
21. FERREIRA M, GARCÍA F, BERTOA M, CALERO C, VALLECILLO A, RUIZ F, PIATTINI M and BRAGA JL (2006) Medición del software: Ontología y Meta-modelo. Technical Report UCLM-TSI-001, University of Castilla-La Mancha.
22. FISHER J (1999) Improving the usability of information systems: the role of the technical communicator. European Journal of Information Systems 8(4), 294-303.
23. GARCIA F, BERTOA MF, CALERO C, VALLECILLO A, RUIZ F, PIATTINI M and GENERO M (2005) Towards a consistent terminology for software measurement. Information and Software Technology 48(8), 631-644.
24. aE, VISAGGIO A, CANFORA G and PIATTINI M (2007) Building a metric-based prediction model for UML class diagram maintainability. Empirical Software Engineering (to be published).
25. GOMEZ J, CACHERO C and PASTOR O (2001) Conceptual modeling of device-Independent web applications. IEEE MultiMedia 8(2), 26-39.
26. HENNICKER R and KOCH N (2000) A UML-based methodology for hypermedia design. In Proceedings of the UML 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1939, pp 410-424, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
27. HEUSER L (2004) The real world or web engineering? In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3140, pp 1-5, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
28. ISO/IEC 9126 (2001) Software Engineering - Product quality - Part 1: Quality Model. International Organization for Standardization, Geneva.
29. IVORY MY (2004) Automated Web Site Evaluation. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell.
30. IVORY MY and HEARST MA (2001) The state of the art in automating usability evaluation in user interfaces. ACM Computing Surveys 33(44), 470-516.
31. IVORY MY and MEGRAW R (2005) Evolution of web site design patterns. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 23(4), 463-497.
32. KENT S (2002) Model-Driven Engineering. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2335, pp 286-298, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
33. KITCHENHAM B, PFLEEGER S and FENTON N (1995) Towards a framework for software measurement validation. IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering 21(12), 929-943.
34. KOCH N (2006) Transformation techniques in the model-driven development process of UWE. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Web Engineering, ACM Press, New York.
35. KOCH N and KRAUS A (2003) Towards a common meta-model for the development of web applications. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Engineering, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2722, pp 497-506, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
36. LANG M and FITZGERALD B (2005) Hypermedia systems development practices: a survey. IEEE Software 22(2), 68-75.
37. MELIÁ S, GÓMEZ J and SERRANO JL (2006) UPT: a graphical transformation language based on a UML profile. In Proceedings of the Second European Workshop on Milestones, Models and Mappings for Model-Driven Architecture, pp 81-97, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
38. MELIÁ S, KRAUS A and KOCH N (2005) MDA transformations applied to web application development. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Engineering, ACM Press, New York.
39. MELLOR SJ, SCOTT K, UHL A and WEISE D (2004) MDA Distilled. Principles of Model-Driven Architecture. Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston.
40. MOODY DL (2005) Theoretical and practical Issues in evaluating the quality of conceptual models: current state and future directions. Data and Knowledge Engineering 55(3), 243-276.
41. MYERS BA and ROSSON MB (1992) Survey on user interface programming. In striking a balance. In Proceedings of the International Conference for Human-Computer Interaction (CHI'92), pp 195-202, ACM Press, New York.
42. NIELSEN J (2000) Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. New Riders, Berkeley.
43. OMG-OCL (2006) Object Constraint Language (OCL). OMG doc. formal/2006-05-01.
44. OMG-MOF (2006) Meta Object Facility (MOF) v2.0. OMG doc. formal/2006-01-01.
45. OMG-QVT (2005) MOF QVT Final Adopted Specification. OMG doc. ptc/2005-11-01.
46. OMG-UML (2005) UML 2.0 Superstructure Specification. OMG doc. formal/2005-07-04.
47. OMG-XMI (2005) XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) Specification v2.1. OMG doc. formal/2005-09-01.
48. PASTOR O, ABRAHAO S and FONS JJ (2001) An object-oriented approach to automate web applications development. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2115, pp 6-28, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
49. PLANET MDE (2005) MDE (Model Driven Engineering). Community Portal. Available electronically at http://www.planetmde.org (last accessed in May 2007).
50. POELS G and DEDENE G (2001) Evaluating the effect of inheritance on the modifiability of object-oriented business domain models, In Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2001), Lisbon, Portugal, 20-28.
51. SCHAUERHUBER A, WIMMER M and KAPSAMMER E (2006) Bridging existing web modeling languages to model-driven engineering: a meta-model for WebML. In Proceedings of the Second Model-Driven Web Engineering Workshop, ACM Press, New York.
52. SCHMIDT DC (2006) Model-driven engineering. IEEE Computer 39(2), 25-31.