Hypertext: the next maintenance mountain
Pearl Brereton, DAVID E. BUDGEN, Geoff W. Hamilton · Computer · 1998
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.