Paper Info
Title
A case study on variability in user interfaces
Abstract
Software Product Lines (SPL) enable efficient derivation of products. SPL concepts have been applied successfully in many domains including interactive applications. However, the user interface (UI) part of applications has barely been addressed yet. While standard SPL concepts allow derivation of functionally correct UIs, there are additional non-functional requirements, like usability, which have to be considered. This paper presents a case study investigating UI variability found in variants of the commercial web-based information system HIS-GX/QIS. We analyze which aspects of a UI vary and to which degree. The results show that just tweaking the final UI (e.g., using stylesheets) is not sufficient but there is a need for more customization which must be supported by, e.g., UI-specific models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2362536.2362542
SPLC (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
software product lines,standard spl concept,ui-specific model,ui variability,user interface,spl concept,commercial web-based information system,additional non-functional requirement,final ui,case study,efficient derivation,user interface engineering,non functional requirement
UI data binding,Information system,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Usability,Tweaking,Software,Human–computer interaction,User interface design,User interface,Personalization
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.54
8
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Pleuss122616.31
Benedikt Hauptmann2879.13
Markus Keunecke3372.74
Goetz Botterweck462046.72