Kobold

Description

Usability-As-A-Service tool for Web Applications

Details

Source

GitHub

Stars

13

Forks

4

Created

June 8, 2017

Updated

Aug. 27, 2025

Topics

kobold smalltalk usability ux web

README excerpt

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# Kobold
Usability-As-A-Service tool for Web Applications.
Working version running at

[https://autorefactoring.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar](https://autorefactoring.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar)

## Overview
Kobold scans your web app's real users' activity to search for usability smells. When you check the reports, Kobold will recommend you to take action by applying usability refactorings. In some cases, you'll be able to apply automatically generated refactorings for you.

## Research
Kobold was developed at LIFIA (UNLP, Argentina) research lab. Read more about it:
- [Kobold: Web usability as a service](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8115717/)
- [Automatic detection of usability smells in web applications](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581916301215)
- [Live versioning of web applications through refactoring](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3238147.3240483)

## Screencast
Check the video to see how it works

[![Kobold Screencast](https://s3.amazonaws.com/selfrefactoring/screencasts/preview.png)](https://youtu.be/c-myYPMUh0Q)


## Installation on Pharo 10 (Requires MongoDB)
```smalltalk
Metacello new
	baseline: 'Kobold';
	repository: 'github://juliangrigera/Kobold';
	onConflictUseLoaded;
	onWarningLog;
	load.
```

After the code's loaded, point your browser to http://localhost:8080/Home