XIDE: Expanding End-User Web Development Evgenia Litvinova, Markku Laine and Petri Vuorimaa Aalto University, Finland

End users vs. Developers

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End users vs. Developers

Visually Source code editing

Web surfing Professional development

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Problem Statement

Visually Source code editing

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Our approach

•  Component-based •  Familiar technology •  Unified technology

•  XIDE •  XFormsDB

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XFormsDB

•  XForms •  Markup-based •  Unified

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XIDE

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XIDE

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XIDE

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XIDE

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User studies

•  9 users •  10 tasks

•  Opportunistic approach •  Code reading •  Copy-paste

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Conclusions

Visually Source code editing

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Thank you! Questions?

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<title> Component N1 </title>

Our approach:

•  Edit the source code •  Existing knowledge

•  Component-based •  Familiar technology •  Simple architecture

Component N1

Component N2

Web application

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Agenda

•  End-user Web development •  Problem statement •  Our proposal •  Evaluation •  Conclusions

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