menu driven development

The practice of developing a Drupal-based website.

When building a website with the Drupal CMS, a great deal of time is spent configuring options inside of administration menu. There is a module, Views, which is devoted to building a menu-driven system for generating queries on the database. Much time is spent clicking buttons and fiddling drop-downs, when the audience for this system is capable of writing their own database queries. Thus, building a website in Drupal is an example of menu driven development.