A Systematic Mapping Study Exploring Quantification Approaches to Code, Design, and Architecture Technical Debt

J Perera, E Tempero, YC Tu, K Blincoe - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
To effectively manage Technical Debt (TD), we need reliable means to quantify it. We
conducted a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) where we identified 39 quantification …

Identification and management of technical debt: a systematic mapping study update

MI Murillo, G López, R Spínola… - Journal of Software …, 2023 - journals-sol.sbc.org.br
Technical debt is a concept used to describe the lack of good practices during software
development, leading to several problems and costs. Identification and management …

What are the practices used by software practitioners on technical debt payment: results from an international family of surveys

B Pérez, C Castellanos, D Correal, N Rios… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Context: Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor used to describe technical decisions that can
give the company a benefit in the short term but possibly hurting the overall quality of the …

Asking about technical debt: Characteristics and automatic identification of technical debt questions on stack overflow

N Kozanidis, R Verdecchia, E Guzmán - Proceedings of the 16th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Background: Q&A sites allow to study how users reference and request support on technical
debt. To date only few studies, focusing on narrow aspects, investigate technical debt on …

Quantifying technical debt: A systematic mapping study and a conceptual model

J Perera, E Tempero, YC Tu, K Blincoe - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.06535, 2023 - arxiv.org
To effectively manage Technical Debt (TD), we need reliable means to quantify it. We
conducted a Systematic Mapping Study (SMS) where we identified TD quantification …

Technical Debt Monitoring Decision Making with Skin in the Game

S Fungprasertkul, R Bahsoon, R Kazman - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Technical Debt Management (TDM) can suffer from unpredictability, communication gaps
and the inaccessibility of relevant information, which hamper the effectiveness of its decision …

Software design and artificial intelligence: A systematic mapping study

A Robles-Aguilar… - 2021 9th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Software Design (SD from now on) is a critical process in the Software Development Life
Cycle. Like all processes, there is a constant search for the improvement of SD activities …

On coherence in technical debt research: Awareness of the risks stemming from the metaphorical origin and relevant remediation strategies

MG Stochel, P Chołda… - 2020 46th Euromicro …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this survey paper on the recent research, the authors evaluate consistency of the use of
technical debt terminology and its convergence with the agreed-upon conceptual model …

How do software architects perceive technical debt in Colombian industry? An analysis of technical debt causes

B Pérez, D Correal… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Technical debt is a metaphor used to describe technical decisions that can give the
company a benefit in the short term but possibly hurting the overall quality of the software in …

Architectural Technical Debt-A Systematic Mapping Study

A Sousa, L Rocha, R Britto - … of the XXXVII Brazilian Symposium on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Architectural Technical Debt (ATD) is one of the leading Technical Debt (TD) that causes
more impact in maintaining and evolving complex software systems. We conduct a …