Considerations on the Development of a Refactoring-based Navigation Model for On-line Transaction Systems

Abstract

The purpose of our present research was to diminish the users ‘dissatisfaction related to navigational limitations of on-line stores. The outcome may well be used also by the firms which implement transactions and commercial web applications. Our case study was carried out on the platform of a virtual store, for whose navigation model we used a class diagram, via UWE (UML-based Web Engineering), which needed be modified for the navigation sustainability. There were two main sequences in the model development. In the first instance, we chose the classes which could be accessed directly and, in this fashion, we would acquire the class navigation diagram. The second instance consisted in diagram's extension with access structures and system menu, thus resulting a navigation structure diagram used for easily gaining each point of the application. At this point, we utilized refactoring in an attempt to offer a quality model for both developers and users.