Mockplug: A high-fidelity mocking tool for plugging functional requirements into existing web applications

Mockplug is a browser extension that allows end users to specify their requirements for any existing web application through high-fidelity mockups. These mockups are built based on web augmentation techniques. This new way of specifying the requirements contains the intrinsic potential that the mockup is built on top of the application itself with elements of the same nature, containing technical information about the requirements in relation to application components from its origin automatically. This has great potential when it comes to being used as an input during the software development process. In this article, we disclose and describe the use and potential of this tool in two totally different approaches to building web software.