A development strategy of user navigation systems and GUI applications
Jeongwon Baeg, A. Hirahara, Yoshiaki Fukazawa · 2002
GUIs (graphical user interfaces) have been developed to make applications easier to use. However, effective methods to support the development process for GUI-based applications are highly required as applications have become increasingly complex. As the supporting methods, we propose a representation technique to suitably describe the structure of an application using Petri nets. The technique supports all development activities of GUI-based applications during the analysis, design and implementation stage. On the other hand, concise explanations are indispensable to easily use complex applications and to help achieve a user's intended actions. We also present a user navigation method for changing messages depending on the present state of the Petri net based application.>