Context The technical debt metaphor describes the effect of immature artifacts on software
maintenance that bring a short-term benefit to the project in terms of increased productivity …

Abstract Context: Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the practice to automatically configure
system dependencies and to provision local and remote instances. Practitioners consider …

Context: Agile software companies applying the DevOps approach require collaboration and
information sharing between practitioners in various roles to produce value. Adopting new …

Context: Software visualizations can help developers to analyze multiple aspects of complex
software systems, but their effectiveness is often uncertain due to the lack of evaluation …

Abstract Design Smells are indicators of situations that negatively affect software quality
attributes such as understandability, testability, extensibility, reusability, and maintainability …

Context Given the increased interest in using visualization techniques (VTs) to help
communicate and understand software architecture (SA) of large scale complex systems …

Context: In software visualization research, various approaches strive to create immersive
environments by employing extended reality devices. In that context, only few research has …

Abstract Context: Variant-Rich Systems (VRSs), such as Software Product Lines or variants
created through clone & own, aim at reusing existing assets. The long lifespan of families of …

Software product lines (SPLs) are families of related systems whose members are
distinguished by the set of features they provide. Over 2 decades of research and practice …

Understanding information about software artifacts is key to successful Agile software
development projects, however, sharing information about artifacts is difficult to achieve …