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Technical Debt is not Only about Code and We Need to be Aware about It

dc.creatorBerenguer, Clara
dc.creatorBorges, Adriano
dc.creatorFreire, Sávio
dc.creatorRios, Nicolli
dc.creatorTaušan, Nebojša
dc.creatorRamač, Robert
dc.creatorPérez, Boris
dc.creatorCastellanos, Camilo
dc.creatorCorreal, Darío
dc.creatorPacheco Hernández, Alexia
dc.creatorLópez Herrera, Gustavo
dc.creatorFalessi, Davide
dc.creatorSeaman, Carolyn
dc.creatorMandić, Vladimir
dc.creatorIzurieta, Clemente
dc.creatorSpínola, Rodrigo
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-14T20:31:25Z
dc.date.available2023-11-14T20:31:25Z
dc.date.issued2021-12-14
dc.description.abstractContext: It is common for a software project to incur technical debt (TD) during its development. It can impact several artifacts produced throughout the software development process. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out management actions to find a balance between the benefits of incurring it and the effects of its presence. However, so far, much of the attention has been given only to discussions relating TD to coding issues. This is a worrying scenario because other types of debt can also have impactful, or even worse, consequences on projects. Aims: This study elaborates on the need to consider other issues of the development process and not just the source-code when investigating the TD phenomenon. Method: We analyze responses from 653 practitioners concerning TD causes, effects, prevention, reasons for non-prevention, repayment, and reasons for non-repayment and investigate whether these TD management elements are related to coding or to other software development issues. Results: Coding issues are commonly related to the investigated elements but, indeed, they are only part of the big picture we draw. Issues related to the project planning and management, human factors, knowledge, quality, process, requirements, verification, validation, and test, design, architecture, TD management, and the organization are also common. Lastly, we present a hump diagram that, in combination with the detailed results, provides guidance on what to expect from the presence of TD and how to react to it considering several issues of software development. Conclusion: The results shed light on other concerns beyond code that the research community and practitioners need to be aware of.es_ES
dc.description.procedenceUCR::Vicerrectoría de Docencia::Ingeniería::Facultad de Ingeniería::Escuela de Ciencias de la Computación e Informáticaes_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3493244.3493285
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10669/90372
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.sourceSBQS '21: Proceedings of the XX Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality. Association for Computing Machinery, Brazil. 8-11 de noviembre de 2021es_ES
dc.subjectTechnical debt (TD)es_ES
dc.subjectTechnical debt managementes_ES
dc.subjectCAUSE AND EFFECTes_ES
dc.titleTechnical Debt is not Only about Code and We Need to be Aware about Ites_ES
dc.typecontribución de congresoes_ES

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