Clickframes

Web Application Framework

Clickframes for Design

Use Clickframes to rapidly spec and prototype web apps, then hand off to developers with ease.

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Clickframes for Java

Use Clickframes to generate enterprise MVC code throughout your development lifecycle.

Java Home »

Clickframes for PHP

Use Clickframes to jumpstart and maintain your CodeIgniter web app, with best practices baked in.

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Clickframes for QA

Use Clickframes to generate automated test scripts and reports that stay in sync with your evolving project.

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Clickframes is about turning user-centered design into high quality, well-tested web applications.

It supports quick iteration of design, development and testing through a simple, unified requirements model tailored to the needs of a web application. Using Clickframes, project teams can automate the generation of design artifacts, prototypes, software requirements, production-ready code, and automated Selenium test scripts.

From our blog

Clickframes is a Code Generation framework written in Java designed specifically to generate (Java) web applications. Clickframes lets you jump start your new project with working generated code at minute zero. Keep what you’ve learnt in one project and reuse in another project using Clickframes Code Generation templates, or simply use the templates that come with Clickframes. The key to the Clickframes approach is separating what an application does and how it does it. What an application does is specific to the project, but how it does it can be generalized and reused across multiple project using code generation.

About Clickframes

Clickframes was originally developed in 2008 by the Informatics Solutions Group at Children's Hospital Boston. The first "Clickframes" came about when we decided to automate generation of HTML wireframes (now Clickframes Interactive Previews), and to reduce the time and effort required to manage requirements for a particularly demanding customer. At a certain point, we realized that we didn't have wireframes anymore — we had a computable requirements model. Some refactoring and development later, the result was Clickframes — a suite focused on the complete lifecycle of a web application, from modeling and design to code generation and development to testing and release.

News

November 3, 2009
Ignite Boston Video

The video from the Clickframes talk at Ignite Boston 6 is now online. The Quicktime Video is here. Warning, big!

September 17, 2009
They call it CLIPr, CLIPr…

Faster than lightning, CLIPr lets you upload an appspec and preview the CLIPs without having to download or install anything locally.

CF @ WebInno23

The Beacon16 gang will be serving a Clickframes “side dish” at the next Web Innovators Group bash: Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 6:30 pm, at the Royal Sonesta Cambridge. It’s free, but RSVP is required. See you there!

CF @ Ignite Boston 6

See Will Crawford’s 5-minute Clickframes talk at Ignite Boston 6 on Thursday, September 17, hosted by O’Reilly Media and Fidelity Investments.

July 14, 2009
CF @ Expo:QA 2009

Nicole Zanetti will present “The Single Source of Truth: Quality Assurance Can Keep Up in an Agile Environment” at Expo:QA 2009 in Madrid. The conference is being held October 27-29.

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