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Towards Requirements Engineering for Mashups: State of the Art and Research Challenges

Authors:
Vincent Tietz
Andreas Rümpel
Christian Liebing
Klaus Meißner

Keywords: Web mashups; requirements engineering; software development process; application modeling; UI composition

Abstract:
Mashups have become popular in the modern Web providing a lightweight development approach for mainly small and situational applications. Visual composition metaphors and loosely coupled widgets encourage the fast implementation of changing requirements. However, domain experts and mashup composers are poorly supported in expressing and formalizing their needs, leading to time-consuming and error-prone component discovery and composition. Methods and techniques of traditional requirements engineering (RE) are not transferable out of the box due to targeted user groups, isolated development phases, insufficient tool support, and different models. Therefore, we investigate characteristics of software engineering in mashup approaches compared to similar development paradigms revealing and discussing challenges when applying RE to mashups.

Pages: 123 to 130

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: May 27, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-200-4

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Dates: from May 27, 2012 to June 1, 2012