Abstract

This paper presents a comparative study of the most relevant methodologies for hypermedia and Web development published in the last few years. Most of these methods focus on the design of hypermedia applications; only a few cover more aspects of the life cycle, such as requirements capture, implementation and/or testing. One common characteristic is the separation of the domain analysis from the specification of the navigation space structure as well as from the design of the user interface. A brief description of each of these methodologies is given as well as a set of comparisons. We compare the main concepts, the phases o steps of the model, CASE Tool support as well as the modelling technique, notation and graphical representation. A list of the most relevant characteristics of the Unified Process is given as well comparing it to hypermedia development methodologies.

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