Novel web application development techniques rely on selection of the right data services, and this task assumes relevance to properly support creativity of developers. To this aim, developers should not merely leverage service descriptions, that are often very simple, in terms of categories and (semantic) tags. Data service selection criteria should include the experience of other developers who used the services in the past for designing their own web applications. According to this viewpoint, a data service might be relevant since: (i) it has been already used in similar contexts (i.e., in applications designed with similar data services); (ii) it has been used by other developers whose service selection experiences are considered as relevant by the developer who is designing the new application. The importance given to past experiences of other developers might be qualified by exploring the social network that relates the developers themselves and its topology. In this paper, we test the effectiveness of a multi-layered model meant for the selection of data services for web application design, taking into account such a developers’ network.
Developers' Networks Contribution to Web application Design
BIANCHINI, Devis;DE ANTONELLIS, Valeria;MELCHIORI, Michele
2015-01-01
Abstract
Novel web application development techniques rely on selection of the right data services, and this task assumes relevance to properly support creativity of developers. To this aim, developers should not merely leverage service descriptions, that are often very simple, in terms of categories and (semantic) tags. Data service selection criteria should include the experience of other developers who used the services in the past for designing their own web applications. According to this viewpoint, a data service might be relevant since: (i) it has been already used in similar contexts (i.e., in applications designed with similar data services); (ii) it has been used by other developers whose service selection experiences are considered as relevant by the developer who is designing the new application. The importance given to past experiences of other developers might be qualified by exploring the social network that relates the developers themselves and its topology. In this paper, we test the effectiveness of a multi-layered model meant for the selection of data services for web application design, taking into account such a developers’ network.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
