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Involving End-Users in Web-Based System Development with INTER-Mediator

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End-user participation helps development activity achieve good results. The web application framework INTER-Mediator can create a database-driven web page with declarative descriptions, enabling end-users to participate. In this paper, we show that a web system developed by using this framework can be maintained with modified declarative descriptions, although they are done with imperative descriptions in other common frameworks. End-users can learn the framework quickly enough, and the framework has fewer code metrics than others. These facts increase the benefit of end-user development, and we conclude that the framework can enable end-users without specialized programming skills to participate in the development process, especially maintenance. If non-programmers like end-users can participate in the system development, the total cost can be reduced, and small- and medium-sized organizations will have more opportunities to introduce web-based business systems.

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  1. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Masayuki Nii, Kenji Tei & Fuyuki Ishikawa

  2. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Fuyuki Ishikawa

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  3. University of Canberra, Canberra, Aust Capital Terr, Australia

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Nii, M., Tei, K., Ishikawa, F. (2016). Involving End-Users in Web-Based System Development with INTER-Mediator. In: Yang, GC., Ao, SI., Huang, X., Castillo, O. (eds) Transactions on Engineering Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0551-0_7

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