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Organizing the State of Practice on Technical Debt Prevention, Monitoring, and Payment in Software Projects

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Knowing technical debt (TD) prevention, monitoring, and payment practices can help development teams choose the best practices for their projects. Identifying the practice avoidance reasons that lead to non-prevention, non-monitoring, and non-payment of TD can support teams in increasing their ability to manage TD items. This Ph.D. dissertation aims to investigate the state of practice in managing TD items in software projects through the continuous and independent replicating of a family of globally distributed surveys named InsighTD. We conducted a literature review on TD prevention, monitoring, and payment and then analyzed data collected by six InsighTD replication teams. The results yielded three types of artifacts: (1) an updated TD conceptual model, (2) a set of TD management maps, and (3) the IDEA diagrams listing TD Impediments, Decision factors, Enabling practices, and Actions. Lastly, we assessed these artifacts through empirical studies in academia and industry.

DOI: 10.5753/cbsoft_estendido.2024.4115

Authors: Sávio Freire, Rodrigo Spínola, Manoel Mendonça

Institutions: Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará, Virginia Commonwealth University, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Language: English

Topic: Software Engineering Research

Subfield: Information Systems

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Funders: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

OpenAlex ID: W4403511309

FWCI: 0.394

Cites: 17

Cited by: 1

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