NDLI: Dynamic round-trip GUI maintenance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Peng Li Wohlstadter, E.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Software Practices Lab., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Peng Li; Wohlstadter, E.)
Abstract	One difficulty in software maintenance is that the relationship between observed program behavior and source code is not always clear. This is true for the maintenance of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), because user interface code can be scattered across the decomposition of applications. A popular approach to develop and maintain GUIs is to use "What you see is what you get" editors. They allow developers to work directly with a graphical design view instead of scattered source elements. Unfortunately GUI editors are limited by their ability to statically reconstruct dynamic collaborations between objects. In our research we investigate the combination of a hybrid dynamic and static approach to allow for round-trip maintenance of GUIs. Dynamic analysis reconstructs object relationships, providing a concrete context in which maintenance can be performed. Static checking guides the reconciliation between the GUI editors' design view and source. We implemented a prototype IDE plugin and evaluate our approach by applying it to five open source projects.
Starting Page	851
Ending Page	854
File Size	243289
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424444861
ISSN	02705257
e-ISBN	9781605580791
DOI	10.1145/1368088.1368220
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-05-10
Publisher Place	Germany
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
Subject Keyword	Graphical user interfaces Software maintenance User interfaces Scattering Collaborative work Rendering (computer graphics) Application software Performance analysis Concrete Software prototyping maintenance gui
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Software

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