Engineering web information systems: A content management system-based approach

Web applications are evolving into enterprise software applications accessible through the Web. Web applications are often constructed based on Web Content Management Systems because a Web Content Management System provides the development team with a cost-effective platform for Web Engineering during the development process. Moreover, it allows non-technical users to maintain the Web application once the application has been deployed on the production environment. Web Engineering, the research field concerning high quality and cost effective development of Web application development, has little research on Web Content Management System-based Web Engineering. We argue that there are some specific development challenges that needs to be addressed. In this paper, we propose a method for the development and deployment of Content Management System-based Web applications. We designed the two methods based on the challenges specifically related to Content Management Systems. Based on project evaluations and interviews within a case study company, the designed method is validated by expert reviews.