Business Processes Refactoring to Improve Usability in E-Commerce Applications
- Autores
- Distante, Damiano; Garrido, Alejandra; Camelier Carvajal, Julia; Giandini, Roxana Silvia; Rossi, Gustavo Héctor
- Año de publicación
- 2014
- Idioma
- inglés
- Tipo de recurso
- artículo
- Estado
- versión publicada
- Descripción
- Refactoring is a technique that applies step-by-step transformations intended to improve the quality of softwarewhile preserving its behavior.It represents an essential activity in today ́s software lifecycle and a powerful tool against software decay. Software decay, however, is not only about code becoming legacy, but it is also about systems becoming less usablecompared to competitor solutions adoptingnewdesignsand newtechnologies. If we narrow the focus on e-commerce systems, the role of usability becomes essential: higher usability is in fact a requirement to win the market competition and to retain customers from turning to other choices. One reason why ane-commerceapplicationcan start suffering frompoorusabilityis because of itsbusiness processes becoming difficult to access, complicatedto execute, and, overall, offering a poor user experience. In this paper we arguethat refactoring can beakey solutionforthis kind of usabilityissues. In particular, we propose a catalog of refactorings as a means to systematically identify and address lack of usability in the business processes of an e-commerce application,and to seize opportunities for usability improvement. To make the presentation concrete and to provide evidence of the benefits that applying our refactorings can bring,wepresenta number of exampleswith reference towell-knowne-commerce websites.
Fil: Distante, Damiano. Instituto de Investigaciones Universitarias Roma la Sapienza; Italia
Fil: Garrido, Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Informática. Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada; Argentina
Fil: Camelier Carvajal, Julia. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Informática. Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada; Argentina
Fil: Giandini, Roxana Silvia. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Informática. Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada; Argentina
Fil: Rossi, Gustavo Héctor. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Informática. Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada; Argentina - Materia
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E-Commerce Websites
Business Processes
Business Web Applications
Quality-In-Use
Refactoring
Usability
Web Model Refactoring
Web Business Process Refactoring - Nivel de accesibilidad
- acceso abierto
- Condiciones de uso
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
- Repositorio
- Institución
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
- OAI Identificador
- oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/33299
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Business Processes Refactoring to Improve Usability in E-Commerce Applications |
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Business Processes Refactoring to Improve Usability in E-Commerce Applications |
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Business Processes Refactoring to Improve Usability in E-Commerce Applications |
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Business Processes Refactoring to Improve Usability in E-Commerce Applications |
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Business Processes Refactoring to Improve Usability in E-Commerce Applications |
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Distante, Damiano Garrido, Alejandra Camelier Carvajal, Julia Giandini, Roxana Silvia Rossi, Gustavo Héctor |
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Distante, Damiano |
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Distante, Damiano Garrido, Alejandra Camelier Carvajal, Julia Giandini, Roxana Silvia Rossi, Gustavo Héctor |
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Garrido, Alejandra Camelier Carvajal, Julia Giandini, Roxana Silvia Rossi, Gustavo Héctor |
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E-Commerce Websites Business Processes Business Web Applications Quality-In-Use Refactoring Usability Web Model Refactoring Web Business Process Refactoring |
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Refactoring is a technique that applies step-by-step transformations intended to improve the quality of softwarewhile preserving its behavior.It represents an essential activity in today ́s software lifecycle and a powerful tool against software decay. Software decay, however, is not only about code becoming legacy, but it is also about systems becoming less usablecompared to competitor solutions adoptingnewdesignsand newtechnologies. If we narrow the focus on e-commerce systems, the role of usability becomes essential: higher usability is in fact a requirement to win the market competition and to retain customers from turning to other choices. One reason why ane-commerceapplicationcan start suffering frompoorusabilityis because of itsbusiness processes becoming difficult to access, complicatedto execute, and, overall, offering a poor user experience. In this paper we arguethat refactoring can beakey solutionforthis kind of usabilityissues. In particular, we propose a catalog of refactorings as a means to systematically identify and address lack of usability in the business processes of an e-commerce application,and to seize opportunities for usability improvement. To make the presentation concrete and to provide evidence of the benefits that applying our refactorings can bring,wepresenta number of exampleswith reference towell-knowne-commerce websites. Fil: Distante, Damiano. Instituto de Investigaciones Universitarias Roma la Sapienza; Italia Fil: Garrido, Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Informática. Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada; Argentina Fil: Camelier Carvajal, Julia. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Informática. Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada; Argentina Fil: Giandini, Roxana Silvia. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Informática. Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada; Argentina Fil: Rossi, Gustavo Héctor. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Informática. Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada; Argentina |
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Refactoring is a technique that applies step-by-step transformations intended to improve the quality of softwarewhile preserving its behavior.It represents an essential activity in today ́s software lifecycle and a powerful tool against software decay. Software decay, however, is not only about code becoming legacy, but it is also about systems becoming less usablecompared to competitor solutions adoptingnewdesignsand newtechnologies. If we narrow the focus on e-commerce systems, the role of usability becomes essential: higher usability is in fact a requirement to win the market competition and to retain customers from turning to other choices. One reason why ane-commerceapplicationcan start suffering frompoorusabilityis because of itsbusiness processes becoming difficult to access, complicatedto execute, and, overall, offering a poor user experience. In this paper we arguethat refactoring can beakey solutionforthis kind of usabilityissues. In particular, we propose a catalog of refactorings as a means to systematically identify and address lack of usability in the business processes of an e-commerce application,and to seize opportunities for usability improvement. To make the presentation concrete and to provide evidence of the benefits that applying our refactorings can bring,wepresenta number of exampleswith reference towell-knowne-commerce websites. |
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