[HTML][HTML] Technical debt management automation: State of the art and future perspectives

JP Biazotto, D Feitosa, P Avgeriou… - Information and Software …, 2024 - Elsevier
Context: Technical debt (TD) refers to non-optimal decisions made in software projects that
may lead to short-term benefits, but potentially harm the system's maintenance in the long …

Organizational debt—Roadblock to agility in software engineering: Exploring an emerging concept and future research for software excellence

O Al-Baik, M Abu Alhija, H Abdeljaber, M Ovais Ahmad - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
In software engineering, organizational debt (OD) is a crucial but little-researched
phenomena. OD refers to the accumulation of outdated structures, policies, and processes …

Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry

R Ramač, V Mandić, N Taušan, N Rios, S Freire… - Journal of Systems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Context: The technical debt (TD) metaphor describes actions made during various stages of
software development that lead to a more costly future regarding system maintenance and …

A Comprehensive View on TD Prevention Practices and Reasons for Not Preventing It

S Freire, A Pacheco, N Rios, B Pérez… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Technical debt payment and prevention through the lenses of software architects

B Pérez, C Castellanos, D Correal, N Rios… - Information and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Context: Architectural decisions are considered one of the most common sources of
technical debt (TD). Thus, it is necessary to understand how TD is perceived by software …

10 years of technical debt research and practice: Past, present, and future

M Ciolkowski, V Lenarduzzi, A Martini - IEEE Software, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Delivering increasingly complex software-reliant systems demands better ways to manage
the long-term effects of short-term expedients. The technical debt (TD) metaphor has gained …

Preventing technical debt with the TAP framework for Technical Debt Aware Management

M Wiese, P Rachow, M Riebisch, J Schwarze - Information and Software …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Context: Technical Debt (TD) is a metaphor for technical problems that are not
visible to users and customers but hinder developers in their work, making future changes …

The broken windows theory applies to technical debt

W Levén, H Broman, T Besker, R Torkar - Empirical Software Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Context: The term technical debt (TD) describes the aggregation of sub-optimal solutions
that serve to impede the evolution and maintenance of a system. Some claim that the broken …

A rule-based decision model to support technical debt decisions: A multiple case study of web and mobile app startups

A Aldaeej, C Seaman - Information and Software Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Context Software startups are immature software organizations that focus on the
development of a single software product or service. This organizational context …

IT managers' perspective on Technical Debt Management

M Wiese, K Borowa - Journal of Systems and Software, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Context: Technical Debt (TD) is a term for software solutions that are beneficial in
the short-term but impede future change. Goal: Previous research on TD indicates various …