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Web engineering with the visual software circuit board
Avoyan H., Levine B.  World Wide Web (Alternate track papers & posters of the Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference, New York, NY, USA, May 19-21, 2004)216-217.2004.Type:Proceedings
Date Reviewed: Oct 18 2004

A short presentation of a software development approach is provided in this paper. Visual software circuit board (VSCB) technology provides the basis for the approach.

The VSCB project began in 2003 at the American University of Armenia. Methodologies and tools developed for designing circuit boards in the last few decades can be used to develop VSCBs. The paper claims that the VSCB approach is particularly suitable for Web engineering applications. This claim is substantiated by five features, including high reuse of components, easy reengineering, quick prototyping, and support for visual drag-and-drop-based Web development. The building elements of VSCB are parts, devices, and wires. A part can be an atomic part, or can be composed from other parts and devices. The wires connect parts for the passing of data. The diagram editor is used to develop the VSCB. In Web engineering applications, VSCBs represent the flow of the Web pages. The wires are used instead of URLs. One of the advantages is in reengineering, where VSCBs only need to be rewired.

The paper avoids comparison with any other software development or Web engineering approaches or tools. Because of this, the methodology can be easily misunderstood to be a variant of some existing methodologies. An e-commerce VSCB diagram is presented as an example. The paper tries to offer as much information as it can, in two pages.

Reviewer:  Maulik A. Dave Review #: CR130289 (0507-0801)
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