Recovering conceptual models from web applications
Giuseppe Antonio Di Lucca, Damiano Distante, Mario Luca Bernardi · 2006
This paper proposes a reverse engineering approach for abstracting conceptual user-centered models from existing Web applications to re-document them at a high level of abstraction and from a user perspective.The recovered models are specified by referring to the Ubiquitous Web Application (UWA) design methodology. UWA models are able to describe the structure of the application contents, the semantic relations among contents, the different views on contents the application offers to users, and the navigation paths and the navigation nodes used to present contents to users.The approach exploits existing reverse engineering methods and tools to extract fine grained structural information from the analyzed applications and abstracts UWA models from them.The architecture of a tool to support the reverse engineering approach is described and the results from some preliminary experiments are discussed.