DynaRIA: A Tool for Ajax Web Application Comprehension

Author

Amalfitano, Domenico ; Fasolino, Anna Rita ; Polcaro, Armando ; Tramontana, Porfirio

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Inf. e Sist., Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

June 30 2010-July 2 2010

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

47

Abstract

Thanks to Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with their enhanced interactivity, responsiveness and dynamicity, the user experience in the Web 2.0 is becoming more and more appealing and user-friendly. At the same time, the dynamic nature of RIAs, and the heterogeneous technologies, frameworks, communication models used for implementing them negatively affect their analyzability and understandability, so that specific software techniques and tools are needed for supporting their comprehension. This paper presents DynaRIA, a tool for the comprehension of RIAs implemented in Ajax that is based on dynamic analysis and provides functionalities for recording and analyzing user sessions from several perspectives, and producing various types of abstractions and visualizations about the run-time behaviour of the application.

Keywords

Internet; program visualisation; software tools; user interfaces; Ajax Web application comprehension; DynaRIA; Web 2.0; communication models; dynamic analysis; heterogeneous technologies; rich Internet applications; run-time behaviour; software techniques; software tools; user sessions; Communications technology; Delay; Internet; Java; Runtime; Search engines; Software tools; US Department of Transportation; User interfaces; Visualization; AJAX Application; Dynamic Analysis; Program Comprehension Tool; Reverse Engineering; Rich Internet Applications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2010 IEEE 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Braga, Minho

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7604-6

Electronic_ISBN

1092-8138

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPC.2010.16

Filename

5521772