Automatic reverse engineering of interactive dynamic web applications to support adaptation across platforms

The effort and time required to develop user interface models has been one of the main limitations to the adoption of model-based approaches, which enable intelligent processing of user interface descriptions. In this paper, we present a tool to perform reverse engineering of interactive dynamic Web applications into a model-based framework describe them at various abstraction levels. We indicate how information in HTML, HTML 5, CSS, Ajax and JavaScript is transformed into such logical framework, which facilitates adaptation to other types of interactive devices. We also discuss how this reverse engineering tool has been exploited in an environment for run-time adaptation or migration of interactive Web applications to various devices in ubiquitous use cases. Author Keywords User interface reverse engineering, Web applications, Model-based user interface descriptions. ACM Classification Keywords H.5 Information Interfaces and Presentation; H.5.2 User Interfaces General Terms Design, H...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: IUI
• Authors: Federico Bellucci, Giuseppe Ghiani, Fabio Paternò, Claudio Porta
• Keywords: Dynamic Web Applications, Interactive Web Applications, IUI 2012, Software Engineering, Time Adaptation