Engineering Web Augmentation software: A development method for enabling end-user maintenance
- Autores
- Firmenich, Diego; Firmenich, Sergio; Rossi, Gustavo Héctor; Wimmer, Manuel; Garrigos Fernandez, Irene; González Mora, César
- Año de publicación
- 2022
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- Nowadays, end-users are able to adapt Web applications when some of their requirements have not been taken into account by developers. One possible way to do adaptations is by using Web Augmentation techniques. Web Augmentation allows end-users to modify the Web sites’ user interfaces once these are loaded on the clientside, i.e., in the browser. They achieve these adaptations by developing and/or installing Web browser plugins (‘‘augmenters’’) that modify the user interface with new functionalities. This particular kind of software artifacts requires special attention regarding maintenance as–in most cases–they depend on third-party resources, such as HTML pages. When these resources are upgraded, unexpected results during the augmentation process may occur. Many communities have arisen around Web Augmentation, and today there are large repositories where developers share their augmenters; end-users may give feedback about existing augmentations and even ask for new ones. Maintenance is a key phase in the augmenters’ life-cycle, and currently, this task falls (as usual) on the developers. In this paper, we present a participatory approach for allowing end-users without programming skills to participate in the augmenters’ maintenance phase. In order to allow this, we also provide support for the development phase to bootstrap a first version of the augmenter and to reduce the load on developers in both phases, development and maintenance. We present an analysis of more than eight thousand augmenters, which helped us devise the approach. Finally, we present an experiment with 48 participants to validate our approach.
- Materia
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Ciencias de la Computación e Información
Web Augmentation
End-user programming
Web adaptation
End-user driven maintenance - Nivel de accesibilidad
- acceso abierto
- Condiciones de uso
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Repositorio
- Institución
- Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
- OAI Identificador
- oai:digital.cic.gba.gob.ar:11746/11380
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Engineering Web Augmentation software: A development method for enabling end-user maintenanceFirmenich, DiegoFirmenich, SergioRossi, Gustavo HéctorWimmer, ManuelGarrigos Fernandez, IreneGonzález Mora, CésarCiencias de la Computación e InformaciónWeb AugmentationEnd-user programmingWeb adaptationEnd-user driven maintenanceNowadays, end-users are able to adapt Web applications when some of their requirements have not been taken into account by developers. One possible way to do adaptations is by using Web Augmentation techniques. Web Augmentation allows end-users to modify the Web sites’ user interfaces once these are loaded on the clientside, i.e., in the browser. They achieve these adaptations by developing and/or installing Web browser plugins (‘‘augmenters’’) that modify the user interface with new functionalities. This particular kind of software artifacts requires special attention regarding maintenance as–in most cases–they depend on third-party resources, such as HTML pages. When these resources are upgraded, unexpected results during the augmentation process may occur. Many communities have arisen around Web Augmentation, and today there are large repositories where developers share their augmenters; end-users may give feedback about existing augmentations and even ask for new ones. Maintenance is a key phase in the augmenters’ life-cycle, and currently, this task falls (as usual) on the developers. In this paper, we present a participatory approach for allowing end-users without programming skills to participate in the augmenters’ maintenance phase. In order to allow this, we also provide support for the development phase to bootstrap a first version of the augmenter and to reduce the load on developers in both phases, development and maintenance. We present an analysis of more than eight thousand augmenters, which helped us devise the approach. Finally, we present an experiment with 48 participants to validate our approach.2022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfhttps://digital.cic.gba.gob.ar/handle/11746/11380enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.infsof.2021.106735info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/0950-5849info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/reponame:CIC Digital (CICBA)instname:Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Airesinstacron:CICBA2025-09-04T09:42:53Zoai:digital.cic.gba.gob.ar:11746/11380Institucionalhttp://digital.cic.gba.gob.arOrganismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://digital.cic.gba.gob.ar/oai/snrdmarisa.degiusti@sedici.unlp.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:94412025-09-04 09:42:53.81CIC Digital (CICBA) - Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas de la Provincia de Buenos Airesfalse |
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Engineering Web Augmentation software: A development method for enabling end-user maintenance |
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Engineering Web Augmentation software: A development method for enabling end-user maintenance Firmenich, Diego Ciencias de la Computación e Información Web Augmentation End-user programming Web adaptation End-user driven maintenance |
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Engineering Web Augmentation software: A development method for enabling end-user maintenance |
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Engineering Web Augmentation software: A development method for enabling end-user maintenance |
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Engineering Web Augmentation software: A development method for enabling end-user maintenance |
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Engineering Web Augmentation software: A development method for enabling end-user maintenance |
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Firmenich, Diego Firmenich, Sergio Rossi, Gustavo Héctor Wimmer, Manuel Garrigos Fernandez, Irene González Mora, César |
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Firmenich, Diego |
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Firmenich, Diego Firmenich, Sergio Rossi, Gustavo Héctor Wimmer, Manuel Garrigos Fernandez, Irene González Mora, César |
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Ciencias de la Computación e Información Web Augmentation End-user programming Web adaptation End-user driven maintenance |
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Nowadays, end-users are able to adapt Web applications when some of their requirements have not been taken into account by developers. One possible way to do adaptations is by using Web Augmentation techniques. Web Augmentation allows end-users to modify the Web sites’ user interfaces once these are loaded on the clientside, i.e., in the browser. They achieve these adaptations by developing and/or installing Web browser plugins (‘‘augmenters’’) that modify the user interface with new functionalities. This particular kind of software artifacts requires special attention regarding maintenance as–in most cases–they depend on third-party resources, such as HTML pages. When these resources are upgraded, unexpected results during the augmentation process may occur. Many communities have arisen around Web Augmentation, and today there are large repositories where developers share their augmenters; end-users may give feedback about existing augmentations and even ask for new ones. Maintenance is a key phase in the augmenters’ life-cycle, and currently, this task falls (as usual) on the developers. In this paper, we present a participatory approach for allowing end-users without programming skills to participate in the augmenters’ maintenance phase. In order to allow this, we also provide support for the development phase to bootstrap a first version of the augmenter and to reduce the load on developers in both phases, development and maintenance. We present an analysis of more than eight thousand augmenters, which helped us devise the approach. Finally, we present an experiment with 48 participants to validate our approach. |
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Nowadays, end-users are able to adapt Web applications when some of their requirements have not been taken into account by developers. One possible way to do adaptations is by using Web Augmentation techniques. Web Augmentation allows end-users to modify the Web sites’ user interfaces once these are loaded on the clientside, i.e., in the browser. They achieve these adaptations by developing and/or installing Web browser plugins (‘‘augmenters’’) that modify the user interface with new functionalities. This particular kind of software artifacts requires special attention regarding maintenance as–in most cases–they depend on third-party resources, such as HTML pages. When these resources are upgraded, unexpected results during the augmentation process may occur. Many communities have arisen around Web Augmentation, and today there are large repositories where developers share their augmenters; end-users may give feedback about existing augmentations and even ask for new ones. Maintenance is a key phase in the augmenters’ life-cycle, and currently, this task falls (as usual) on the developers. In this paper, we present a participatory approach for allowing end-users without programming skills to participate in the augmenters’ maintenance phase. In order to allow this, we also provide support for the development phase to bootstrap a first version of the augmenter and to reduce the load on developers in both phases, development and maintenance. We present an analysis of more than eight thousand augmenters, which helped us devise the approach. Finally, we present an experiment with 48 participants to validate our approach. |
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