Automatically generated user interface for an XML editor

Abstract: Developing software systems are costly, with this in mind you would want to deliver one system to several customersinstead of developing a new system for each customer. The customers’ needs and demands are often very different, soa system needs to be flexible to fit many potential customers. There are also situations where a customer’s need might vary over time. Many hours can be saved by designing your system so that it can be reconfigured to fit your customers. In this paper we will present how we created tools to simplify editing of XML configuration files. We put in great effort to keep our components as modular as possible, so that they easily could be added to different projects without modification. We will also present a few examples on how our components could be used.

This master thesis was conducted at Saab Security’s division for Air Traffic Management, ATM, in Gothenburg and the final components are specialized to fit their needs. The components are general enough to work with any well formed XML document, but some features will only be available when the documents follow certain patterns and schemas used by Saab Security.

During this master thesis we have developed using the development method called Scrum. In this report we will also give an explanation of Scrum and how we have benefited from working with a well known development method.