The practitioners' point of view on the concept of technical debt and its causes and consequences: a design for a global family of industrial surveys and its first results …

N Rios, RO Spínola, M Mendonça… - Empirical Software …, 2020 - Springer
Context Studying the causes of technical debt (TD) could aid in TD prevention, thus easing
the job of TD management. On the other hand, better understanding of the effects of TD …

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 …

What are the practices used by software practitioners on technical debt payment: results from an international family of surveys

B Pérez, C Castellanos, D Correal, N Rios… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Context: Technical debt (TD) is a metaphor used to describe technical decisions that can
give the company a benefit in the short term but possibly hurting the overall quality of the …

Common causes and effects of technical debt in serbian it: Insightd survey replication

R Ramač, V Mandić, N Taušan, N Rios… - 2020 46th euromicro …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Background: The concept of technical debt (TD) describes a phenomenon that impacts
software projects and makes them difficult to manage. In recent years, various techniques …

Detecting the locations and predicting the maintenance costs of compound architectural debts

L Xiao, Y Cai, R Kazman, R Mo… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Architectural Technical Debt (ATD) refers to sub-optimal architectural design in a software
system that incurs high maintenance “interest” over time. Previous research revealed that …

The prevalence of the technical debt concept in serbian it industry: Results of a national-wide survey

V Mandić, N Taušan, R Ramač - … of the 3rd international conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Background: There is a growing body of knowledge on Technical Debt (TD) in recent years.
This knowledge provides various explanations of the term and suggests different remedies …

How Experience Impacts Practitioners' Perception of Causes and Effects of Technical Debt

S Freire, N Rios, B Pérez, C Castellanos… - 2021 IEEE/ACM 13th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Context: The technical debt (TD) metaphor helps to conceptualize the pending issues and
trade-offs made during software development. Knowing TD causes can support in defining …

Key skills to work with agile frameworks in software engineering: Chilean perspectives

H Cornide-Reyes, F Riquelme, R Noel… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Agile frameworks continue to provide positive evidence regarding the benefits of their use in
the software products. Since these methods develop professional skills in those who …

Familiarity, Common Causes and Effects of Technical Debt: A Replicated Study in the Saudi Software Industry

A Aldaeej, M Alshayeb - Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2024 - Springer
Technical debt (TD) poses a significant risk in the software industry, representing the
compromises made during software development that result in long-term consequences. To …