SoftwareX (Jan 2022)

Web Generator: An open-source software for synthetic web-based user interface dataset generation

  • Andrés Soto,
  • Héctor Mora,
  • Jaime A. Riascos

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17
p. 100985

Abstract

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Recently, Machine Learning algorithms have been employed to automate several processes, including software development. However, this action demands large datasets for training these algorithms. To our knowledge, there is no tool for generating synthetic datasets that contain HTML objects (interfaces, codes, wireframe.) Thus, we present the Web Generator, a software designed to mainly provide web pages, designs, and content based on the Bootstrap frontend framework. The software delivers markup code, screenshots, and labels for web elements. We aim to generate enough material for training and exploring the Machine Learning approach for automatic web design and development with this software.

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