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Abstract:

Hypertext documents are quickly becoming large, complex, and unwieldy. Can lessons learned from software maintenance be applied to the problem? Just as software has grown extremely complex and difficult to maintain, hypertext is now approaching similar complexity, with many documents based on large and intricate component graphs. For many organizations today, maintaining such documents is becoming a burdensome task in its own right. The development process for hypertext documents is also starting to resemble that of software, requiring analysis of hypertext documents ’ ability to meet an organization’s needs, well-planned design and implementation, and follow-up testing for consistency and effectiveness.

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