Towards greater flexibility in software design systems through hypermedia functionality

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Abstract

Support for integrating software descriptions is one of the key requirements for advanced systems development. Design or upper CASE tools can be greatly increased in power by hypermedia functionality, which provides tool users with smooth transfer possibilities through the dependencies between documents or parts of them. This article discusses the prominent hypermedia features required for accomplishing this and describes a prototype in a meta-CASE environment. Different hyperlink types are defined, supporting dependency representation and navigation, requirements tracing, annotation, argumentation, and bookmarking and landmarking capabilities. A set of link navigation features is also discussed.

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