Context: Technical debt (TD) is a well-known metaphor for the long-term effects of
architectural decisions in software development and the trade-off between producing high …

Objective We aim at performing an exploratory study of the current state of HFH and its
suitability to be used as a source platform for empirical studies. Method We conduct a …

We designed a prospective empirical investigation to study our STW (Software Technologies
for the Web) course with respect to the training of bachelor students in the context of …

Technical debt is a well-known challenge in software development, and its negative impact
on software quality, maintainability, and performance is widely recognized. In recent years …

Background: Software vulnerabilities are flaws in application source code that can be
exploited to cause harm, hence companies must devise strategies to manage them. Aim: We …

Background: There are a number of academic courses in the Bachelor Program in Computer
Science (CS) on the design of Web apps. Often the internal and external quality of the …

Modern compilers often offer a variety of warning flags, which developers can enable to get
feedback on code that, while syntactically correct, may be problematic. In the case of C++ …

Background: Software documentation often struggles to catch up with the pace of software
evolution. The lack of correct, complete, and up-to-date documentation results in an …

With Python's ascension as a dominant program-ming language, particularly in the fields of
artificial intelligence and data science, the need for comprehensive datasets focusing on …

Software development teams need to prioritize the technical debt items payment to improve
the software quality and ensure the new feature and code maintenance development pace …