Hypertext: the next maintenance mountain

Pearl Brereton, David Budgen, Geoff Hamilton

Computer · 1998 · 42 citations · 6 references

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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.

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