From Mockups to User Interface Models: An Extensible Model Driven Approach

Sketching web applications with mockup tools is a common practice that improves the process of elicitation and validation of requirements in web applications. However, mockups are used as a “quick and dirty” way of gathering requirements thus discarded before development. As a consequence, concepts captured in them are usually lost in the manual transformation between mockups and the final user interface. In this paper we present a model-driven approach that overcomes this problem by importing mockups and then transforming them into a technology-dependent model. Development then begins from the imported version of the mockups.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICWE
• Authors: José Matías Rivero, Gustavo Rossi, Julián Grigera, Juan Burella, Esteban Robles Luna, Silvia E. Gordillo
• Keywords: Final User Interface, ICWE 2010, Internet Technology, Mockup Tools, Web Applications