Inferring User Interface Patterns from Execution Traces of Web Applications

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

Miguel Nabuco (Author) Other; Ana C R Paiva (Author) FEUP; Joao Pascoal Faria (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ITS APPLICATIONS - ICCSA 2014, PT V

Pages: 311-326

14th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA)

Guimaraes, PORTUGAL, JUN 30-JUL 03, 2014

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Technology > Computer technology > Software technology

Associated Projects

PTDC/EIA-EIA/119479/2010 - Teste de interfaces gráficas com o utilizador baseado em padrões

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Authenticus ID: P-009-Q58

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09156-3_23

Abstract (EN): This paper presents a dynamic reverse engineering approach to extract User Interface (UI) Patterns from existent Web Applications. Firstly, information related to user interaction is saved, in particular: user actions and parameters; the HTML source pages; and the URLs. Secondly, the collected information is analysed in order to calculate several metrics (e.g., the differences between subsequent HTML pages). Thirdly, the existent UI Patterns are inferred from the overall information calculated based on a set of heuristic rules. The overall reverse engineering approach is evaluated with some experiments over several public Web Applications.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 16