Automated Analysis and Evaluation of Web Applications Design: The CMS-based Web Applications Case Study

Vassiliki Gkantouna, Athanasios Tsakalidis, Giannis Tzimas

2016

Abstract

This paper addresses the automated design quality evaluation of Web applications built on a CMS platform by inspecting their conceptual model under the viewpoint of consistent design reuse. We have utilized WebML as the design platform of the proposed methodology and we attempt to capture design reuse by detecting all the recurrent patterns within the WebML hypertext model of an application. A pattern consists of a core specification, i.e., an invariant composition of WebML elements that characterizes the pattern and by a number of pattern variants which extend the core specification with all the valid modalities in which the pattern composition can start (starting variants) or terminate (termination variants). We have developed a methodology that automatically extracts the hypertext model of a web application which is subsequently submitted to a pattern-based analysis in order to identify the occurrences of all the incorporated recurrent patterns implying design reuse. Then, we calculate evaluation metrics revealing whether the identified patterns variants are used consistently throughout the application. By using the methodology, designers can detect either effective reusable design solutions consistently used throughout the application model for obtaining certain functionality within the application’s context or recurrent design constructs causing design inconsistencies and lowering the quality of the final application.

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Gkantouna V., Tsakalidis A. and Tzimas G. (2016). Automated Analysis and Evaluation of Web Applications Design: The CMS-based Web Applications Case Study . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-186-1, pages 130-139. DOI: 10.5220/0005813701300139


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@conference{webist16,
author={Vassiliki Gkantouna and Athanasios Tsakalidis and Giannis Tzimas},
title={Automated Analysis and Evaluation of Web Applications Design: The CMS-based Web Applications Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2016},
pages={130-139},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005813701300139},
isbn={978-989-758-186-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Automated Analysis and Evaluation of Web Applications Design: The CMS-based Web Applications Case Study
SN - 978-989-758-186-1
AU - Gkantouna V.
AU - Tsakalidis A.
AU - Tzimas G.
PY - 2016
SP - 130
EP - 139
DO - 10.5220/0005813701300139