Identification and analysis of the elements required to manage technical debt by means of a systematic mapping study

C Fernández-Sánchez, J Garbajosa, A Yagüe… - Journal of Systems and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Technical debt, a metaphor for the long-term consequences of weak software development,
must be managed to keep it under control. The main goal of this article is to identify and …

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 …

Evaluating the agreement among technical debt measurement tools: building an empirical benchmark of technical debt liabilities

T Amanatidis, N Mittas, A Moschou… - Empirical Software …, 2020 - Springer
Software teams are often asked to deliver new features within strict deadlines leading
developers to deliberately or inadvertently serve “not quite right code” compromising …

An architectural technical debt index based on machine learning and architectural smells

D Sas, P Avgeriou - IEEE Transactions on Software …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A key aspect of technical debt (TD) management is the ability to measure the amount of
principal accumulated in a system. The current literature contains an array of approaches to …

A framework to aid in decision making for technical debt management

C Fernández-Sánchez, J Garbajosa… - 2015 IEEE 7th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current technical debt management approaches mainly address specific types of technical
debt. This paper introduces a framework to aid in decision making for technical debt …

Towards in-transit analytics for industry 4.0

R Hill, J Devitt, A Anjum, M Ali - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industry 4.0, or Digital Manufacturing, is a vision of interconnected services to facilitate
innovation in the manufacturing sector. A fundamental requirement of innovation is the …

Can i solve it? identifying apis required to complete oss tasks

F Santos, I Wiese, B Trinkenreich… - 2021 IEEE/ACM 18th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Open Source Software projects add labels to open issues to help contributors choose tasks.
However, manually labeling issues is time-consuming and error-prone. Current automatic …

An analysis of automated technical debt measurement

I Khomyakov, Z Makhmutov, R Mirgalimova… - … Information Systems: 21st …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background: Measuring and understanding Technical Debt (TD) is quite complex
since there are a number of different definitions and techniques that have been proposed in …

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 …

Comparing maintainability index, SIG method, and SQALE for technical debt identification

P Strečanský, S Chren, B Rossi - Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Many techniques have emerged to evaluate software Technical Debt (TD). However,
differences in reporting TD are not yet studied widely, as they can give different perceptions …