Abstract Code ridden with Technical Debt (TD) has motivated software engineers to keep
the quality of systems under control to ease future maintenance tasks. In the last decade …

Context. Technical debt (TD) prevention allows software practitioners to apply practices to
avoid potential TD items in their projects. Aims. To uncover and prioritize, from the point of …

Context: Technical debt (TD) payment refers to the activity of expending maintenance effort
and resources to make up for the effects of previous technical compromises. Aims: To …

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 …

[Context:] Requirements and requirements documentation debt (R2DD) indicate shortcuts
taken in software development projects, resulting in requirements partially implemented and …

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Context: Technical debt (TD) can bring short-term benefits to software projects, but its
presence is associated with issues such as decreasing product quality. Recent literature has …

Context: It is common for a software project to incur technical debt (TD) during its
development. It can impact several artifacts produced throughout the software development …

Context: The presence of technical debt (TD) brings risks to software projects. Managers
must continuously find a cost-benefit balance between the benefits of incurring in TD and the …

Context: The adoption of agile methodologies can bring benefits to software projects, but
such methodologies are also prone to technical debt (TD) accumulation. Knowing the …