Title :
Hypertext: the next maintenance mountain
Author :
Brereton, Pearl ; Budgen, David ; Hamilton, Geoff
Author_Institution :
Keele Univ., UK
fDate :
12/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
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;
