Many old programs are interesting for the value of the information they control, yet their use is awkward since they were written many years ago, when not much attention was paid to the user interface, also due to the primitive technology of those dark ages (15 years ago). Often their code is not documented, and to put the hands in their code is a task too horrible to contemplate. It would therefore be desirable to be able to apply, with little effort, some aesthetic surgery on them without risking to attempt on their health. In this paper we suggest that WWW can provide a safe and relatively inexpensive mean to build a better user interface to them, and present an example.
Ronchetti M, D'Andrea V, Succi G, Feltrin D (1995). Face Lift: using WWW technology for an external reengineering of old applications.
Face Lift: using WWW technology for an external reengineering of old applications
Succi G;
1995
Abstract
Many old programs are interesting for the value of the information they control, yet their use is awkward since they were written many years ago, when not much attention was paid to the user interface, also due to the primitive technology of those dark ages (15 years ago). Often their code is not documented, and to put the hands in their code is a task too horrible to contemplate. It would therefore be desirable to be able to apply, with little effort, some aesthetic surgery on them without risking to attempt on their health. In this paper we suggest that WWW can provide a safe and relatively inexpensive mean to build a better user interface to them, and present an example.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
