DocumentCode
1451065
Title
Hypertext: the next maintenance mountain
Author
Brereton, Pearl ; Budgen, David ; Hamilton, Geoff
Author_Institution
Keele Univ., UK
Volume
31
Issue
12
fYear
1998
fDate
12/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
49
Lastpage
55
Abstract
Hypertext documents are quickly becoming large, complex, and unwieldy. The paper considers whether lessons learned from software maintenance can be applied to the problem. Since software maintenance is a major problem and since hypertext documents share many of the characteristics of software: structure, development process, and economic value, maintaining hypertext documents is also likely to become a major problem requiring immediate action
Keywords
document handling; hypermedia; software maintenance; economic value; hypertext documents; software development process; software maintenance; software structure; Advertising; Contracts; HTML; Information management; Marketing and sales; Programming; Software maintenance; Software testing; Web pages; Web sites;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computer
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9162
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/2.735850
Filename
735850
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