Title
Scaffolding Relational Schemas And Apis From Content In Web Mockups
Abstract
Web developers often use an interface-driven design process where mockups are gradually refined before being implemented using a platform or framework. We propose a tool, DataMockups, that supports the creation of digital mockups and then generates a relational schema automatically based on sample content and some assumptions on its structure. This aims at reducing development effort, and the database knowledge required by developers. Sample content may be entered manually or automatically using data extracted from similar existing websites. A relational schema is inferred from the data content, and then translated to an SQL database definition before generating a server-side API. To support schema evolution, the generated API provides schema abstractions that offer robustness to future schema modifications. We report on a case study for the schema inference and a performance evaluation of the data detection algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_12
CONCEPTUAL MODELING, ER 2017
Keywords
Field
DocType
Schema generation, Digital mockups, Interface-driven development, Scaffolding, Relational schema
Scaffold,World Wide Web,Abstraction,Information retrieval,Computer science,Data detection,Robustness (computer science),Design process,Schema evolution,Schema (psychology),Data content,Database
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10650
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alfonso Murolo151.43
Sybil Ehrensberger200.34
Zera Asani300.34
M. C. Norrie4152.13