Redocumenting software systems using hypertext technology

The majority of software maintenance activity is performed on systems that are poorly documented and were built without the benefit of modern design practices. A discussion is presented of the importance of documentation in the maintenance phase, and a tool based on hypertext technology is proposed that can meet a number of the documentation needs of the maintenance programmer. This tool supports the following features: incremental documentation, casual update, quality assurance, team use, configuration management, integrated source code, integrated automatic documentation, and information hiding