Web-Based User Interface (Web UI)

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A Web-Based User Interface (Web UI) provides a graphical interface that a person accesses through a web browser to interact with a software system.

A Web UI can allow a user to:

• Select operations
• Supply input values
• Review configuration
• Initiate activities
• Observe execution status
• Review results
• Examine logs
• Inspect Artifacts
• Review findings and Evidence

A Web UI exchanges information with the underlying software through one or more defined software interfaces.

Within Crucible documentation, a Web UI provides one possible human-facing interface for configuring, initiating, observing, and reviewing Crucible operations.

graphical user interface accessed through a web browser that enables a person to interact with a software system

DIDO-controlled term adapted from established web-application and user-interface practices.

The term Web UI means Web-Based User Interface.

A Web UI differs from a Command-Line Interface (CLI). A Web UI provides browser-based graphical interaction, while a CLI accepts textual commands, options, and arguments.

A Web UI differs from an Application Programming Interface. A Web UI supports interaction by a person, while an Application Programming Interface supports interaction between software components.

A Web UI can invoke the same underlying operations exposed through a CLI or Application Programming Interface.

The existence of a Web UI does not require every Crucible operation to be interactive. Automated Workflows and CI/CD Pipelines can use noninteractive interfaces.

An operator accesses the Crucible Web UI through a browser, selects a Workspace, chooses a Baseline Composition operation, supplies the required parameters, initiates execution, and reviews the resulting status and Evidence.