Upon evolving their software, organizations and individual developers have to spend a
substantial effort to pay back technical debt, ie, the fact that software is released in a shape …

The opinions and perspectives of software developers are highly regarded in software
engineering research. The experience and knowledge of software practitioners are …

Dockerfiles can be affected by bad design choices, known as Dock-erfile smells. Hadolint is
currently the reference tool able to detect them, and it is widely used both by researchers …

Grounded theory (GT) has been extensively used in social studies through surveys and
interviews. However, its application in software development has not been appropriately …

Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD), cases where developers intentionally acknowledge
suboptimal solutions in code through comments, poses a significant challenge to software …

During long-term software evolution, it is inevitable that an accumulation of changes leads to
architectural erosion and debt. Diverse metric-based methods have been developed to …

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 …

Technical debt (TD) is a by-product of short-term optimisation that results in longterm
disadvantages. Because every system gets more complicated while it is evolving, technical …

Kaupallisen ohjelmistotuotteen tavoitteena on tuottaa yritykselle rahallista voittoa. Jotta tuote
voi menestyä, tulee sen ratkaista jokin reaalimaailman ongelma. Tämän lisäksi ohjelmiston …

Technische Schulden sind ein wesentlicher Aspekt in der Softwareentwicklung und machen
einen beachtlichen Anteil der Entwicklungszeit aus. Diese Forschungsarbeit konzentriert …