An approach to identify commonalities in web application engineering for a web content management system

Souer, Jurriaan; Joor, Dirkjan

doi:10.1145/1967486.1967572

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“…This research consists of two main parts: the part I is focused on the identification of the reusable components and matching those components with e-business models, which is described in Souer and Joor (2010). This paper focuses on part II where we consolidate the identified e-business models and show how they can be integrated into a software product line.…”

Section: Commonalities In Wcms Engineeringmentioning

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“…The link between publishing companies and the portal is explained by the intent of leveraging its core business; the content available from their already specialized magazine. In Souer and Joor (2010), we elaborated on the e-business models and how we used feature modeling as defined in Kang et al (1990) to identify common features in our web application engineering process (Schmid et al, 2006) and to identify the underlying e-business models. This was based on the assumption that each of the eight atomic e-business models has core competences that are needed to sustain the model (Prahalad and Hamel, 1990).…”

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Identifying commonalities in web content management system engineering

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International Journal of Web Information Systems

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Purpose -The main purpose of this paper is to improve a web content management system (WCMS) product line for future implementations by identifying software commonalities in WCMS-based web applications. WCMS plays a central role in modern web application development: most large public and internal web sites are based on a WCMS foundation. If we can improve the implementation process, the effectiveness and efficiency of web application development will increase significantly. Design/methodology/approach -This research identifies reusable solutions from existing WCMS implementations using problem diagrams and structured goal modeling. From configurations were matched with atomic e-business models by linking them to the strategic competencies through bottom-up goal modeling. A designed method was constructed on how requirements can be elicited for WCMS implementations using goal modeling and problem frames. Findings -The resulting method provides insight in relevant e-business models and their relation to software product lines. Moreover, the approach is applied in a WCMS study which demonstrates its applicability. Practical implications -The practical implications of this research is twofold: WCMS developers now have a method to improve their product line based on e-business models; and requirements engineers implementing WCMS can use this model to apply reusable software and prioritize requirements. Both will potentially have a large impact on the effectiveness of implementations since most web applications are developed with WCMS. Originality/value -The paper presents a novel approach for efficient and effective identification of software commonalities. This research is part of the web engineering method that focuses on development of web applications based on WCMSs.

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Section: E-business Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying commonalities in web content management system engineering

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Joor²,

Helms

et al. 2011

International Journal of Web Information Systems

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“…A known problem with CMS' is that if the CMS is customized itself, upgrading to a newer release is going to be a problem [10]. Dual lifecycle: platform and customized implementation: as described in [11], the dual lifecycle consists of the product line itself (the CMS), and the implementation (CMS-based Web Application). A challenge in this process is how to ensure that both customizations and implementations can be upgraded without interference or issues concerning stability or functionality.…”

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Engineering web information systems

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Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-Based Applications and Services

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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.

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An approach to identify commonalities in web application engineering for a web content management system

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Identifying commonalities in web content management system engineering

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