Prof. Dr. Cesare Pautasso

Live Mashup Tools: Challenges and Opportunities

Saeed Aghaee, Cesare Pautasso

First ICSE International Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA

May 2013

Abstract

Live programming is a programming style in which the repetitive task of compiling and running the software being programmed is managed automatically. This style can be a helpful practice in End-User Development (EUD) where the non-professional end-users are to be supported through techniques and tools that empower them to create or modify software artifacts. Mashups — a form of lightweight Web applications composing reusable content and functionalities available on the Web — are a popular target for EUD activities on the Web. EUD for mashups is enabled by intuitive composition environments, called mashup tools. In this paper, we introduce live mashup tools, a new class of mashup tools based on the live programming style. We give a comprehensive definition and classification of live mashup tools, giving examples of how well existing tools fit in this category and discuss open research challenges and opportunities.

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DOI: 10.1109/LIVE.2013.6617338

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@inproceedings{aghaee2013live,
	author = {Saeed Aghaee and Cesare Pautasso},
	title = {Live Mashup Tools: Challenges and Opportunities},
	booktitle = {First ICSE International Workshop on Live Programming (LIVE 2013)},
	year = {2013},
	month = {May},
	address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
	abstract = {Live programming is a programming style in which the repetitive task of compiling and running the software being programmed is managed automatically. This style can be a helpful practice in End-User Development (EUD) where the non-professional end-users are to be supported through techniques and tools that empower them to create or modify software artifacts. Mashups \textemdash a form of lightweight Web applications composing reusable content and functionalities available on the Web \textemdash are a popular target for EUD activities on the Web. EUD for mashups is enabled by intuitive composition environments, called mashup tools. In this paper, we introduce live mashup tools, a new class of mashup tools based on the live programming style. We give a comprehensive definition and classification of live mashup tools, giving examples of how well existing tools fit in this category and discuss open research challenges and opportunities.},
	keywords = {live programming, NaturalMash, Mashups},
	doi = {10.1109/LIVE.2013.6617338}
}