WebSpec: A visual language for specifying interaction and navigation requirements in web applications

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 297-321

  Luna Robles, Esteban ^a,b   Rossi, Gustavo ^c   Garrigós, Irene ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Centro Científico y Tecnológico Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Code generation; Interaction; Simulation; Testing; Web requirements

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; APPLICATION SIMULATION; AUTOMATIC TEST GENERATION; CODE GENERATION; DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; EXPRESSIVE POWER; INTERACTION; INTERACTION FEATURES; MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE; SIMULATION; TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS; VISUAL LANGUAGE; WEB APPLICATION; WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; WEB DEVELOPMENT; WEB REQUIREMENTS;

NAVIGATION; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 80355133393     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-011-0124-1     Document Type: Article

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