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Technical debt interest assessment: From issues to project

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posted on 2024-06-18, 04:10 authored by A Martini, Simon VajdaSimon Vajda, Rajesh VasaRajesh Vasa, A Jones, Mohamed AbdelrazekMohamed Abdelrazek, J Grundy, J Bosch
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery. The interest of Technical Debt (TD) is difcult to calculate, especially on a project level. Current approaches are based on fne-grain issue assessment, but there is no evidence about how TD is assessed on a project level. A few tools use an aggregation function that sum the TD issues on a project level. We conducted a multiple case-study on four diferent projects. We asked the project teams to assess the TD both on an issue level and on a project level. We also asked the product manager and a senior developer to assess the TD on a project level. We found that the function mapping the interest of TD to a project overall is not the sum of issue-level TD. We report the quantitative results of the performed experiment and we also developed a qualitative explanation of the results based on interviews with the development team. This paper represents a frst step towards assessing the interest of TD at a project level.

History

Volume

Part F129907

Pagination

1-6

Location

Cologne, Germany

Start date

2017-05-22

End date

2017-05-26

ISBN-13

9781450352642

Language

Eng

Publication classification

E Conference publication, E1 Full written paper - refereed

Title of proceedings

Proceedings of the XP2017 Scientific Workshops

Event

XP workshops (2017 : Cologne, Germany)

Publisher

ACM

Place of publication

New York, N.Y.

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