Background Software companies need to manage and refactor Technical Debt issues.
Therefore, it is necessary to understand if and when refactoring of Technical Debt should be …

Test smells are defined as sub-optimal design choices developers make when
implementing test cases. Hence, similar to code smells, the research community has …

Background: Seeking an appropriate architecture for the design of software is always a
challenge. Although microservices are claimed to be a lightweight architecture style that can …

Abstract Background: Developers use Static Analysis Tools (SATs) to control for potential
quality issues in source code, including defects and technical debt. Tool vendors have …

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 …

Technical Debt (TD) is a successful metaphor in conveying the consequences of software
inefficiencies and their elimination to both technical and non-technical stakeholders …

Artificial Intelligence is getting more and more popular, being adopted in a large number of
applications and technology we use on a daily basis. However, a large number of Artificial …

While many large-scale software systems intensively implement variability to reuse software
and speed up development, they often do not document it, hampering its comprehension …

Technical Debt, considered by many to be the 'silent killer'of software projects, has
undeniably become part of the everyday vocabulary of software engineers. We know it …

Quantum computing is a rapidly growing field attracting the interest of both researchers and
software developers. Supported by its numerous open-source tools, developers can now …