Our presentation at the Eighth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST'12). by Markku Laine, http://www.tinyurl.com/mplaine, Evgenia Litvinova, and Petri Vuorimaa

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

2. End users vs. Developers
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3. End users vs. Developers
Visually Source code editing
Web surfing Professional development
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4. Problem Statement
Visually Source code editing
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5. Our approach
• Component-based
• XIDE
• Familiar technology
• XFormsDB
• Unified technology
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6. XFormsDB
• XForms
• Markup-based
• Unified
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7. XIDE
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8. XIDE
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9. XIDE
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10. XIDE
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11. User studies
• 9 users
• 10 tasks
• Opportunistic approach
• Code reading
• Copy-paste
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12. Conclusions
Visually Source code editing
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13. Thank you!
Questions?
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14. Our approach:
• Edit the source code Web application
• Existing knowledge
<title> Component N1 </title>
Component N1
• Component-based
• Familiar technology
• Simple architecture
Component N2
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15. Agenda
• End-user Web development
• Problem statement
• Our proposal
• Evaluation
• Conclusions
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